Set in Okinawa, this story follows an arranged marriage involving a woman in debt and a young man with intellectual disabilities, while drawing out family feeling and social scrutiny. Its restrained narration holds urgency and warmth together.

As she hesitates and faces the other family, the woman gradually encounters an unexpected kindness.

Dog Days is a short story by Kazunori Fujieda, published in the November 1990 issue of the literary magazine Shincho.

A short story published in the November 1990 issue of Shincho.