Japanese Translations & Criticism

Compiled and updated by Takako Takamoto, National University of Fisheries (Japan)

On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan -- Japanese EditionBeddo no naka de (In Between the Sheets, trans. by Yoshiyuki Fujikawa and Mitsuya Kato). Tokyo: Shuei-sha, 1983 (hardcover).

Inosento (The Innocent, trans. by Takao Miyawaki). Tokyo: Hayakawa Novels, 1992 (251p., ISBN: 415207762X -- hardcover); Tokyo: Hayakawa Bunko NV (722), 1994 (377p., ISBN: 4150407223 -- softcover).

Ihoojin-tachi no Nagusame (The Comfort of Strangers, trans. by Takao Miyawaki). Tokyo: Hayakawa Novels, 1994 (166p., ISBN: 4152078375 -- hardcover).

Jikan no naka no Kodomo (The Child in Time, trans. by Yasushi Mano). Tokyo: Chuo-koron-shinsha, 1995 (314p., ISBN: 4120024784 -- (hardcover).

Saisho no Koi Saigo no Gishiki (First Love, Last Rites, trans. by Takao Miyawaki). Tokyo: Hayakawa Novels, 1999 (246p., ISBN: 4152081511 -- hardcover).

Amusuterudamu (Amsterdam, trans. by Taichi Koyama). Tokyo: Shincho Crest Books, 1999 (198p., ISBN: 4105900099 -- softcover).

Semento Gaaden (The Cement Garden, trans. by Takao Miyawaki). Tokyo: Hayakawa Novels, 2000 (183p., ISBN: 4152082674 -- hardcover).

Amsterdam by Ian McEwan -- Japanese EditionKuroi Inu (Black Dogs, trans. by Takao Miyawaki). Tokyo: Hayakawa Novels, 2000 (238p., ISBN: 4152082909 -- hardcover).

Ai no Tsuzuki (Enduring Love, trans. by Taichi Koyama). Tokyo: Shincho Crest Books, 2000 (316p., ISBN: 4105900218 -- softcover).

Yumemiru Piitaa no Nanatsu no Boken (The Daydreamer, trans. by Yasushi Mano). Tokyo: Chuo- koron-sha, 2001 (216p., ISBN: 4120032000 -- hardcover).

Shokuzai (Atonement, trans. by Taichi Koyama). Tokyo: Shincho-sha, 2003 (446p., ISBN: 4105431013 - hardcover).

Doyoobi (Saturday, trans. by Taichi Koyama). Tokyo: Shincho-sha, 2007 (351p., ISBN: 4105900633- softcover).

Shoya (On Chesil Beach, trans. By Kiyoshi Muramatsu). Tokyo: Shincho-sha, 2009 (172p., ISBN: 410590079X - softcover).

Sooraa (Solar, trans. by Kiyoshi Muramatsu). Tokyo: Shincho Crest Books, 2011(p 361, ISBN: 4105900919 - softcover).

Kanbi-naru Sakusen (Sweet Tooth, trans. by Kiyoshi Muramatsu). Tokyo: Shincho Crest Books, 2014 (p 410, ISBN:4105901117 - softcover).

Miseinen (The Children Act, trans. by Kiyoshi Muramatsu). Tokyo: Shincho Crest Books, 2015 (230 p, ISBN-13: 978-4105901226 - softcover).

Yuutsuna Jukkagetsu (Nutshell, trans. by Kiyoshi Muramatsu), Tokyo: Shincho Crest Books, 2018 (221 p, ISBN-13: 978-4105901479 - softcover).

Koisuru Adamu (Machines Like Me, trans. by Kiyoshi Muramatsu), Tokyo: Shincho Crest Books, 2021 (399 p. ISBN-13: 978-4105901714 - softcover).


Reviews, Interviews, and Criticism

1984

Tezuka, Kyosuke. 'Summer, Breeze, Smells, Death -- On Ian McEwan', Thought Currents in English Literature, 57, 1984: 43-56. (Japanese)

1993

Ohgi, Reiko. 'A Sick Brave New World: Ian McEwan's "Conversation with a Cupboard Man" ', The Toyo Review, 25, 1993: 25-37. (Japanese)

1996

Yata, Keiji. 'The Dead Speak: Aspects of Narrative Technique in Ian McEwan's The Innocent', Bulletin of Tokyo Kasei University, 36(1), 1996: 43-48. (English; Available online in PDF)

Atonement by Ian McEwan -- Japanese Edition1997

Takeoka, Chiyo. 'An Essay on Ian McEwan's The Comfort of Strangers -- Desire of the Other Signified by Patriarchy', Kogakuin University Bulletin -- General Education, 35(2), 1997: 87-97. (Japanese)

1998

Kurosu, Kishiko. 'The Child in Time by Ian McEwan --Time in Consciousness', Journal of Saitama Junior College, 7, 1998: 73-80. (Japanese)

Kurosu, Kishiko. 'The Meaning of "Daydream" in The Daydreamer', Eibei Bungaku Hyoron, Spring 1998: 4-8.

1999

Muto, Tetsuro. 'The Lack of Moral Dilemma in McEwan's Amsterdam', Otsuma Review, 32, 1999. (Japanese)

Takeoka, Chiyo. 'Ian McEwan no Yumemiru Shonen ni Itaru Katei'. 1999 nendai no Igirisu Shosetsu. Ed. 20 seiki Eibungaku Kenkyuukai (Tokyo: Kinseido, 1999), 76-93. (Japanese)

2000

Ujiie, Rie. '(De)composing The Millennial Symphony: The Rise and Fall of Man/Men in Amsterdam', The Journal of Seigakuin University, 12(2), 2000: 53-64. (Japanese)

Enduring Love by Ian McEwan -- Japanese Edition2001

Cull, Ian V. 'The Pathological Extension of Love in Ian McEwan's Enduring Love', Niigata Studies in Foreign Languages and Cultures, 7, 2001: 1-19. (English)

Matsumiya, Sonoko. 'The World of Fading Borders: Ubiquitous Evil in Ian McEwan's Black Dogs", Studies in Western Literature, 21, 2001: 1-19. (Japanese)

2002

Ohgi, Reiko. 'A Study on Ian McEwan's Enduring Love -- As a Never Ending Story', Bulletin of Toyo Gakuen University, 10, 2002: 75-83. (Japanese)

Takamoto, Takako. 'Enduring Love: Soutaika-sareta "Monogatari" ' ('Enduring Love: Relativised "Stories" '), Kyushu Eibungaku Kenkyu, 19, 2002: 55-68.

Takeoka, Chiyo. 'Analysis of Ian McEwan's "Solid Geometry" as Narrative Discourse -- On Postmodern Indeterminacy', Kogakuin University Bulletin -- General Education, 40(1), 2002: 85-94. (Japanese)

2003

Muto, Tetsuro. 'Morality in McEwan's Novels: From First Love, Last Rites to Atonement', Otsuma Women's University Annual Report -- Humanities and Social Sciences, 35, 2003: 1-10. (Japanese)

Takamoto, Takako. 'The Child in Time ni okeru Futatsu no Jikan' ('Two Kinds of "Time" in The Child in Time'), New Perspective (Shin Eibei Bungaku Kenkyuu), 177, 2003: 45-57.

2004

Oka, Noriko. 'Ian McEwan no Enduring Love ni okeru "Ten'i" to "Hanpuku"', English Literature Review (Kyoto Joshi Daigaku Eibungaku Ronsoo), 48, 2004: 1-14. (Japanese)

The Daydreamer by Ian McEwan -- Japanese Edition2005

Koyama, Taichi. 'Ian McEwan ni okeru Comic no Yooso', Eigo Seinen, 150(12), 2005: 22-25. (Japanese)

Takamoto, Takako. 'Love Story no Fukken ni mukete--Shokuzai ni okeru Monogatari to Dootoku'. Eibungaku to Dootoku. Edited by Sonoi Eishu (Fukuoka: Kyushu UP, 2005), 249-266. (Japanese)

Yata, Keiji. 'Showing Off Damaged Bodies: Ian McEwan's Atonement', Bulletin of Tokyo Kasei University, 45:1, 2005: 49-58. (English; Available online in PDF)

Muto, Tetsuro. 'A Contrast Between the Two Labourers and Mrs Thatcher in Ian McEwan's The Child in Time', Otsuma Women's University Annual Report -- Humanities and Social Sciences, 37, 2005: 436-424. (Japanese)

Takamoto, Takako. 'The Innocent ni okeru innocence no imi' ('The Import of innocence in The Innocent'). Booker Reader--Gendai Eikoku·Eirenpo shoosetsu o Yomu. Edited by Yoshida Tetsuo (Tokyo: Kaibunsha Shuppan, 2005), 249-268. (Japanese)

2006

Muto, Tetsuro. 'A Day of a Neurosurgeon: Ian McEwan's Hyper-real Novel Saturday', Otsuma Women's University Annual Report -- Humanities and Social Sciences, 38, 2006: 318-309. (Japanese)

Takamoto, Takako. 'Ian McEwan's Moral Vision in Saturday', Journal of National Fisheries University, 54(3), 2006: 83-91 (Japanese) [Available in .pdf].

Oka, Noriko. 'Focalization and Other Minds in Ian McEwan's Atonement"', English and American Studies (Journal of the Graduate School--Kyoto Women's University), 5, 2006: 15-32. (Japanese).

2007

Muto, Tetsuro. 'Evil Remains Alive: Ian McEwan's Black Dogs', Otsuma Women's University Annual Report: Humanities and Social Sciences, 39, 2007: 194-184. (Japanese).

Oka, Noriko. 'The Divided self: the double in Ian McEwan's Enduring Love', English and American Studies (Journal of the Graduate School -- Kyoto Women's University), 6, 2007: 31-49. (Japanese).

Sakaki, Masako. 'Artistic Novelists: McEwan, Kureishi and Ishiguro', Language and Culture (University of Shizuoka), 10, 2007: 51-62. (Japanese).

2008

Koyama, Taichi. 'Ishiki-ni-kirikomu Shujutsu-too.' (Scalpel Incising into Consciousness) Nami 457 , January 2008: 2-5 [Interview].

Kimura, Masanori. 'Ai koso wa subete----Yakkai na dootoku-ka, Ian McEwan' Shin jiyu-shugi wa bungaku wo kaeta-ka ----Thatcher-igo no Igirisu (Tokyo: Hosei Univ. Press, 2008), 135-160. (Japanese).

Muto, Tetsuro. 'What Changed the Lives of a Young Couple?: Ian McEwan's On Chesil Beach', Otsuma Women's University Annual Report -- Humanities and Social Sciences, 40, 2008: 260-251. (Japanese).

Takamoto, Takako. 'Ian McEwan no Shosetsu ni okeru Seibutsugaku-teki Ningenkan ('Ian McEwan's Biological View of Man as Expressed in his Novels from The Innocent (1990) through On Chesil Beach (2007)'). Kyudai Eibungaku (Kyushu University English Review), 50 (special issue), 2008: 101-121. (Japanese).

Fujikawa, Yoshiyuki. 'Kyofu to no Tawamure - Shoki Sakuhin wo Chushin ni', Eigo Seinen (The Rising Generation), 154(8), 2008: 3-5. (Japanese)

Kato, Mitsuya. 'The Comfort of Strangers Saidoku', Eigo Seinen (The Rising Generation), 154(8), 2008: 6-7. (Japanese)

Miyawaki, Takao. 'Ian McEwan no Shoki no Buntai', Eigo Seinen (The Rising Generation), 154(8), 2008: 8-10. (Japanese)

Takamoto, Takako. 'Ian McEwan to Kagaku - Sosaku no Genten to shite no New Science Shisoo', Eigo Seinen (The Rising Generation), 154 (8), 2008: 11-13. (Japanese)

Takeda, Masaaki. 'Deguchi no nai Sekai - Ian McEwan no Jikan Kankaku', Eigo Seinen (The Rising Generation), 154(8), 2008: 14-16. (Japanese)

Koyama, Taichi. 'Ian McEwan wo Yakusu', Eigo Seinen (The Rising Generation), 154(8), 2008: 17-20. (Japanese)

Oka, Noriko. 'Continuity/discontinuity: variable time in Ian McEwan's "The Child in Time"', English and American studies (Eigo Eibei- bungaku Ronsoo), 7, 2008: 31-48. (Japanese)

2009

Muto, Tetsuro. 'The Writing of the Opera For You: The Artistic Reward for Ian McEwan', Otsuma Women's University Annual Report -- Humanities and Social Sciences, 41, 2009: 194-184. (Japanese).

Hashimoto, Kenji. 'Saul Bellow in Ian McEwan's Eyes', The Bulletin of the English Society, Osaka Kyoiku University, 54, 2009: 51-58. (Japanese).

Translation. 'Tsuito John Updike' (Japanese/ Trans. by Taichi Koyama), Shincho, 106 (4),2009: 216-223.

2012

Muto, Tetsuro. 'Theory of Mind' and Literature : Ian McEwan's Narrative Perspective and 'Levels of Intentionality', Otsuma Women's University Annual Report -- Humanities and Social Sciences, 44, 2012: 144-130. (Japanese).

Nakajima, Ayaka. 'Disordering Fiction's Order : Irony underneath Homage in Ian McEwan's Atonement', Osaka Literary Review, 51, 2012: 67-82.

2013

Muto, Tetsuro. 'Ian McEwan's Spy Novel Sweet Tooth: What Do Readers Want from Fiction?', Otsuma Women's University Annual Report -- Humanities and Social Sciences, 45, 2013: 236-225. (Japanese).

Takamoto, Takako. 'Does the Medical Report Have the Final Say? : Ian McEwan's Enduring Love', Studies in English--The regional branches combined issue, 5, 2013: 315-324.

2014

Kunioka, Natsumi. 'Female Self-realization in On Chesil Beach: Ian McEwan's Representation of Desire', Graduate School of Foreign Languages Kanagawa University, 20, 2014: 1-57.

Nakakubo, Yasushi. 'The Post Office Tower in Two British Novels: Iris Murdoch's The Black Prince (1973) and Ian McEwan's Saturday (2005)', Reports from the Faculty of Clinical Psychology, Kyoto Bunkyo University,7, 2014: 17-30. (Japanese).

2015

Takamoto, Takako. 'The Influence of the Recent Research Achievements in Biology on Contemporary British Fiction', The journal of the Shimonoseki University of Fisheries, 63(2), 2015: 83-95. (Japanese).

Kondo, Yasuhiro. 'Realism as "the Residual" and Its Innovation : Metamodernism in Ian McEwan's Atonement(What is Metamodernism?)', Virginia Woolf Review, 32, 2015: 66-78. (Japanese).

2016

Mae, Wakiko. 'Ian McEwan's Atonement and the Tallis House', Journal of the Institute of Cultural Science, 82, 2016: 75-93. (Japanese).

Muto, Tetsuro. 'Ian McEwan's The Children Act: Conflicts of Religious Belief and the Law', Otsuma Women's University Annual Report -- Humanities and Social Sciences, 48, 2016: 208-199. (Japanese).

2017

Kazunari, Miyahara. 'You know what it is, but you want me to say it: Counterfeit Dialogism and the Issue of Responsibility in Ian McEwan's Enduring Love', Studies in English--The regional branches combined issue, 9, 2017: 265-274. (Japanese).

Mallett, Peter. Jr. 'Misanthropes and Monsters: Writing the Unlikeable', Journal of the Faculty of Letters, Kobe Shoin Women's University, 6, 2017: 37-47. (English).

Akiko, Yamagishi. 'Psychological Consideration of Guilt and Atonement in the Novels : Atonement by Ian McEwan and The Little House by Kyoko Nakajima', Journal of Health Care and Nursing, 13(2), 2017: 82-90. (Japanese).

2018

Robert, Dormer. 'Ecocriticism as Literary Lens & Novels as Instruments of Environmentalist Praxis:Reflections on Don DeLillo's White Noise & Ian McEwan's Solar.' Kwansei Gakuin University Humanities Review, 22, February 2018: 187-196.

Tsunekawa, Masami. 'Vernon and Hypocrisy: Satirical Elements in Ian McEwan's Amsterdam', Journal of the Faculty of Humanities, Toyama University, 69, 2018: 137-145. (Japanese).

Sato, Kaoru. 'Interpersonal Conflict with a Loss: Reading Child in Time by Ian McEwan', The Bulletin of the Institute of Human Sciences, Toyo University, 20, 2018: 97-111. (Japanese).

Muto, Tetsuro. 'Ian McEwan's Latest Novel Nutshell: Hamlet Who Shut in His Mother's Womb', Otsuma Women's University Annual Report -- Humanities and Social Sciences, 50, 2018: 252-244. (Japanese).

2019

Miyahara, Kazunari. 'Forgiveness Is a Matter of Time: Chronological Manipulation in Ian McEwan’s Atonement', Journal of the Literary Society of Yamaguchi University, 69, 2019: 95-124. (Japanese).

Miyahara, Kazunari. 'At-One-Ment and Overlaid Records of the Acts of Reading in Part One of Ian McEwan's Atonement', Journal of Text Studies, 15, 2019: 71-90. (Japanese).

Tsunekawa, Masami. ''A Fake Jewel for Creation: Clive's Solitude in Ian McEwan's Amsterdam''. Journal of the Faculty of Humanities, Toyama University, 71, 2019: 93-104. (Japanese).

Muto, Tetsuro. 'McEwan's Dunkirk Scenes Which were Not Cinematized', Otsuma Women's University Annual Report -- Humanities and Social Sciences, 51, 2019: 264-255. (Japanese).

2020

Tsunekawa, Masami. 'The Law and Meaning of Life: Ian McEwan's The Children Act'. Journal of the Faculty of Humanities, Toyama University, 72, 2020: 73-84. (Japanese).

Mimura, Takahiro. 'A Study of Self-Deceptive Narrator of Ian McEwan's "My Purple Scented Novel" from the Perspective of Narrative Identity', New Perspective, 50(2), 2020: 27-31. (Japanese).

2021

Tsunekawa, Masami. 'Metafictional Confirmation of Love : Deceit in Ian McEwan's Sweet Tooth' Ivy: The Nagoya Review of English Studies, 54, 2021: 1-23. (Japanese)

2022

Tsunekawa, Masami. 'Robot Ethics and the Novel: Ian McEwan's Machines like Me', Journal of the Faculty of Humanities, 76, 2022: 69-82. (Japanese)

Koshi, Tomohiko. '"Roman-ha-teki Kodomo-zoo" no Kaitai: Ian McEwan Cement Garden ron', Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 518, March 2022: 1-12.

Kitaoka,Kazuhiro. 'Into Deeper Darkness : Sexual Motifs and Masculinity in Ian McEwan's Atonement (2001)', New Perspective, 52(2), 2022: 212-25.

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