Season of the Sun portrays the aimless lives of young people from affluent families, their nihilism, and their defiance of established postwar morality. Shintarō Ishihara's breakthrough work helped spark public debate around the youth culture later called the taiyōzoku, or Sun Tribe.

A novel of postwar youth, marked by nihilism, impulse, and resistance to established morality.

Jiuta is an early work by Sawako Ariyoshi about a blind grand master of koto music who devotes his life to the instrument and his daughter. Set in the world of traditional performing arts, it follows the bond of love and conflict between the father and the daughter who defies his way of life by marrying a Japanese American man.

The love and conflict between a blind father devoted to the koto and his daughter resound through the world of traditional performing arts.

Shūmoku is a short story by Sadao Oniuda. Centered on Iwai, a prisoner held in a Russian labor camp, it appeared in Sakuhin in 1955. It was shortlisted for the 33rd Naoki Prize and selected in the preliminary round of the first Bungeikai Newcomer Award.

A short story portraying life after war through the perspective of a prisoner in a Russian labor camp.