“self-Othering” 136–7
self-therapy 28, 53
self-understanding 70, 76, 79
sex-segregated order 86, 87
“sheepless” (hitsuji nuke) state 16
Shibata Katsuji 56
Shibata Motoyuki 2, 3, 19, 57, 109, 124, 127, 129, 130, 142–4
“Shidonī no gurīn sutorīto” (“Sydney’s Green Street”) 121
Shiga Naoya 118
Shimizu Yoshinori 31
Shinto 110
Shklovsky, Victor 1, 119
Shōno Junzō 74
Slow Boat to China 34, 121
social criticism 10, 11
Sputnik Sweetheart (Supūtoniku no koibido, 1999) 103
Strecher, Matthew Carl 17, 56, 75
Sugano, Motoko 124, 142–4
sushi 66, 110
Suter, Rebecca 114, 121, 138, 161
Suzuki, Tomi 10
Svidanie (The Rendezvous) 114–15
“swallowing” the situation 19
“symbol-deciphering game” 17
“system” 154
Takarajima (1982) 42n1
Takeda Seiji 11
The Tale of Genji 86, 155
The Tale of Heike 155
“talk” (kataru) 27
Tanaka Masashi 80, 86
Tanizaki Jun’ichirō 118
Tawada, Yōko 126, 136
Tayama Katai 115
“techno-Orientalism” 108
Tengo 122, 123, 146n5, 155, 158, 159
Third Generation of Postwar Writers (daisan no shinjin) 74
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (2010) 132, 134, 136, 144
“386 Generation” 14
Tobita Shigeo 142
Tōi taiko (Distant Drums) 117
Tokō Kōji 104n1, 115
“to talk” (kataru) 27
“traditional” Japan 109
translation activity 125–8
“translation ‘back’ into an original context and language” (2009: 23) 142–4
translationese language 2, 13
travelling and writing fiction 47
Tri vstrechi (Three Encounters) 114–15
Tsubouchi Yūzō 130
tsurai (hard, painful) 49, 71n2
tsūzoku shōsetsu (popular novels) 116
Tufts University 5, 74, 117
Turgenev, Ivan 114–15
Uchida Tatsuru 111–12
Ugetsu monogatari 113
Ukigumo (Floating Cloud) 115
Ukiyo no gaka 142
uncertainty 27–33, 37, 45, 92
“unconscious compulsion to act” (ugokasareru chikara) 77, 78, 86, 102
uncontrollable power 77
Underground (Andāguraundo, 1997) 3, 20, 21, 47, 75, 78, 113, 133, 158–60
Underground 2 (Yakusokusareta basho de: Andāguraundo 2, 1998) 3, 78, 113
un-Japaneseness, negotiation 3, 4, 108–13
unmediated couple 60
unreliability 55
Updike, John 110
Venuti, Lawrence 124, 126
Vonnegut, Kurt 12, 40
de Waard, Marco 135
Wakabayashi, Judy 120
“Wasureenu hitobito” (“Unforgettable People”) 114
watakushi shōsetsu (I-novel) 9–11
Watanabe Tōru 46, 48, 49, 51–70, 71n2, 71n3, 71n5
watashi 10, 146n6
Wei Hui 14
A Wild Sheep Chase (Hitsuji o meguru bōken, 1982) 9, 16, 29, 31, 133, 159
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Nejimaki dori kuronikuru, 1995) 75–6, 132, 155, 159
Yagate kanashiki gaikokugo (The Ultimately Sorrowful Foreign Language, 2000) 74–5
Yamane Yumie 37
Yasuoka Shōtarō 41
Yeung, Virginia 55
Yokomitsu Riichi 116
Yomota Inuhiko 2, 60, 109
“you” as kimi 128–32
“You’re cookin’ with Crisco” 38–9
Zen Buddhism 110
zenkyōtō counterculture movement 8, 9, 11, 26, 27, 155
Zielinska-Elliott, Anna 125
Haruki Murakami Page 27