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Apr 18, 2021
Billed as an “adult romance” in Japan, where it was a runaway bestseller when it came out in 2016, Keiichiro Hirano’s “At the End of the Matinee” can’t really be described as a romance novel in the typical sense for English readers.
At the End of the Matinee, by Keiichiro Hirano
Translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter
316 pages
AMAZON CROSSING
Sure, the star-crossed protagonists play out the yearnings of a thwarted love, with the triumphs and obstacles of any dramatic affair. Yet what sets this book apart is how Hirano painstakingly renders the backdrop of their story, providing readers with a detailed view of politics, culture and economics at the start of the 21st century.
Books ready for free download this year include today’s release of Keiichiro Hirano’s bestseller in Tokyo, ‘At the End of the Matinee.’
‘This Complex Diversity’
The author of
At the End of the Matinee leans in and sports a slightly impish smile when he hears a question he likes to answer.
Better in English than he gives himself credit for being, Keiichiro Hirano, has heard the phrase “language of relationships” in an interview with
Publishing Perspectives from his home in Japan. He’s being asked through interpreter Beth Cary about the modulating personalities in his books–intelligent, shifting souls who seem to surprise themselves as much as his readers as they move from one guise to another.
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Constructing First Version of Japanese Reference Genome
The Japanese now have their own reference genome thanks to researchers at Tohoku University who completed and released the first Japanese reference genome (JG1).
Their study was published in the journal Nature Communications on January 11, 2021.
“JG1 can aid with the clinical sequence analysis of Japanese individuals with rare diseases as it eliminates the genomic differences from the international reference genome,” said Jun Takayama, co-author of the study.
Back in 2003, the Human Genome Project, through a gargantuan global effort, cracked the code of life and mapped all the genes of the human genome.