Chibusa is an autobiographical novel by Shizuka Ijuin that draws on his wife's illness and loss to portray the time spent facing the death of a loved one. The quiet of the sickroom, memories of marriage, and the pain of the one left behind are narrated with restraint.

An autobiographical novel that looks at love and loss in the moonlit quiet of a sickroom.

Shinjuku Shark is a police novel by Arimasa Osawa featuring Samejima, a detective at Shinjuku Police Station. An isolated elite-track officer pursues police shootings and an illegal gunsmith, entering the darkness of urban desire and crime.

Detective Samejima, feared by criminals, cuts alone into Shinjuku's underworld.