A science-fiction suspense novel beginning with an inexplicable riot at a primate research facility in Kyoto. Centering the disaster on one chimpanzee, it links science and fear while questioning the boundary between humans, apes, imitation, and violence.

One chimpanzee unsettles the boundary between human reason and violence.

A novel linking people devoted to making a girls' magazine in wartime Tokyo with the mystery of a small box delivered in the present. It warmly depicts admiration for magazine culture and women working and living through a turbulent era.

Dreams entrusted to a girls' magazine illuminate one life across time.

A two-volume novel connecting Cambodia under the Pol Pot regime with a near future. Across a broad time span, it explores violence, intelligence, games, and politics, asking how people might resist systems.

Historical violence and the logic of games press human choice to its limits.

A psychological suspense novel about a boy with homicidal impulses and the adults around him. The perspectives of offender, family, community, and workplace overlap, probing emotions that cannot be reduced to good and evil.

A boy's white impulse shakes the ethics and emotions of the people around him.

A historical novel set in Nara-period capital society during a smallpox epidemic, following people connected to the Seyakuin and Hidenin relief institutions. As disease exposes discrimination and fear, the novel follows those confronting care and salvation.

The force of epidemic illuminates social darkness and human prayer in the ancient capital.