Meiji Period begins 23rd October 1868
1897
Musashino/Ima no Musashino
Doppo Kunikida
1898
Nami-ko/Hototogisu
Tokutomo Kenjiro
1906
An Adopted Husband/Sono Omokage
Futabatei Shimei
Botchan
Natsume Soseki
1909
Country Teacher/Inaka Kyoshi
Tayama Katai
And Then/Sorekara
Natsume Soseki
Wild Geese/Gan
Mori Ogai
Taisho Period begins 30th July 1912
1914
Kokoro/Kokoro:Sensei no Isho
Natsume Soseki
Rivalry/Ude kurabe
Kafu Nagai
1925
The Lemon
Motojiro Kajii
Showa Period begins 25th December 1926
1929
The Devil's Disciple/Akuma no deshi
Hamao Shiro
1936
The Wind Has Risen/Kaze Tachinu
Hori Tatsuo
Children in the Wind/Kaze no naka kodomo
Tsubota Joji
1937
A Riot of Goldfish/Kingyo
Okamoto Kanoko
A Dark Night's Passing/An'ya Koro
(serialized, first part appeared in 1921 completed in 1937)
Naoya Shiga
1942
The Moon over the Mountain/Sangetsuki
Nakajima Atsushi
1947
The Setting Sun/Shayo
Dazai Osamu
1948
Home-Coming/Kikyo
Osaragi Jiro
No Longer Human/Ningen Shikkaku
Dazai Osamu
1949
Citadel in Spring/Haru no Shiro
Agawa Hiroyuki
The Bells of Nagasaki/Nagasaki no kane
Nagai Takashi
1950
White and Purple/Shiro to Murasaki
Sata Ineko
1952
Two Billion Light-Years of Solitude
Tanikawa Shuntaro
1954
Ghosts/Yurei
Kita Morio
1955
Manganese Dioxide Dreams/Kasankamangansui no yume
Tanizaki Junichiro
1958
Points and Lines/Ten to sen
Matsumoto Seicho
1959
Inter Ice Age 4/Dai yon Kampyo-ki
Abe Kobo
1965
Madame de Sade/Sado koshaku fujin
Mishima Yukio
The Ruined Map/Moyetsukita chizu
Abe Kobo
1969
Adventures of Sumiyakist Q/Sumiyakisto no boken
Kurahashi Yumiko
1970
Anshitsu/The Dark Room
Yoshiyuki Junnosuke
Wedlock/Tsumagomi
Furui Yoshikichi
1972
Betty's Garden/Betei-san no Niwa
Yamamoto Michiko
The Maid/Kazoku Hakkei
Tsutsui Yasutaka
The Twilight Years/Kokotsu no hito
Ariyoshi Sawako
1973
Requiem
Go Shizuko
Shot by Both Sides/Hasamiuchi
Goto Meisei
1976
Doll Love/Ningyo Ai
Takahashi Takako
1978
Child of Fortune/Choji
Tsushima Yuko
Invalid/Byoshin
Takahashi Takako
1979
Hear the Wind Sing/Kaze no uta O'Kike
Murakami Haruki
Wind and Stone/Yume wa kareno o
Tachihara Masaaki
1980
Distant Thunder/Enrai
Tatematsu Wahei
1982
Sayonara Gangsters/Sayounara Gyangu-tachi
Takahashi Genichiro
Shipwrecks/Hasen
Yoshimura Akira
1984
The Bomb/Hiroshima
Oda Makoto
Death Sentences/Genshi Gari
Kawamata Chiaki
1985
Isle of Dreams/Yume no shima
Hino Keizo
Watcher From the Shore/Kami no yogoreta te
Sono Ayako
1987
Hyperart:Thomasson
Akasegawa Genpei
69
Murakami Ryu
Heisei Period begins 8th January 1989
Dream Messenger/Yumetsukai
Shimada Masahiko
1990
Plainsong
Hosaka Kazushi
1993
The Downfall of Matias Guili
Ikezawa Natsuki
The Apprenticeship of Big Toe P/Oyayubi P no shugyo jidai
Rieko Matsuura
The Bridegroom Was a Dog/Inumukoiri
Yoko Tawada
The Stones Cry Out/Ishi no raireki
Hikaru Okuizumi
1998
The Paradise Bird Tattoo/Akame shijuya-taki shinju misui
Kurumatani Choukitsu
Naoko/Himitsu
Keigo Higashino
Loop/Rupu
Suzuki Koji
1999
Vibrator
Akasaka Mari
2000
Sensei no kaban/The Briefcase
Kawakami Hiromi
2003
Clear Water/Shimizu
Hirano Keiichiro
Riaru Warudo/Real World
Natsuo Kirino
2004
The Unfertilized Egg/Museiran
Hasegawa Junko
The Cage of Zeus/Zeusu no ori
Ueda Sayuri
2005
The Devotion of Suspect X/Yogisha X no kenshin
Higashino Keigo
In Pursuit of Lavender/Tobo kusotawake
Itoyama Akiko
The Lake/Mizuumi
Yoshimoto Banana
Five Strange Tales from Tokyo/Tokyo ki Tansyu
Murakami Haruki
2007
Soul Dance/Tamashii Dance
Arai Takako
Villain/Akunin
Yoshida Shuichi
2009
1Q84 Book One and Book Two
Murakami Haruki
2010
1Q84 Book Three
Murakami Haruki
