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“Her translation work has appeared in Asia Literary Review and English PEN Presents.”
“She holds a PhD in the joint Japanese Literature-Comparative Literature track from Washington University, St.”
“I finished translating the first draft of this novel in June of 2025 and immediately burst into tears.”
“Article continues after advertisement My upbringing wasn’t quite as colorful as Yuko’s though.”
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“She currently at work on the translation of Maiko Seo’s All The Long Nights forthcoming from Europa Editions in 2027.”
“Little do you know that adults, even the ones who seem put together, are just as messy as the children they’re raising.”
“However, at the age of ten, Shūhei announces that his company has transferred him to Brazil.”
“Until April 2026, Japan did not have any joint custody system in place; prior that change, children could not be listed on two family registries at once.”
“What this means legally speaking is that Yuko is removed from her father’s family registry (koseki) and placed on Rika’s—she transforms from Yuko Mita to Yuko Tanaka, and as a result, she is no longer a legal member of either of her biological parents’ family units.”
“Who are we when our parents are no longer there to serve as a guidepost for us?”
“Rika, through a series of remarriages and divorces, shuffles Yuko along from family registry to family registry, and with each new household, Yuko again calibrates herself to the adults around her, a process she slowly comes to realize is not the norm in other families.”
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“For a ten-year-old like Yuko, however, the nitty gritty details of visitation and finances are less important than the very real fact of separation.”