about the charity for the East Japan Earthquake

On behalf of the East Japan earthquake that occurred on March 11th 2011, Waseda Bungaku has organized a charity project that has gathered free of charge, newly published stories by contemporary Japanese writers. These publications are issued domestically through e-book and all sales have been donated to the beneficial use of the disaster victims.

Literary works have been contributed by Hideo Furukawa, Kazushige Abe, Mieko Kawakami, Toh EnJoe, Shin Fukunaga, Yasuhisa Yoshikawa, Jungo Aoki, Aoko Matsuda, Sayaka Murata, Fuminori Nakamura, Akio Nakamori, Furukuri Kinoshita, Mayuko Makita, Maki Kashimada & Kiyoshi Shigematsu. Author profiles, contributed short stories and essays can be found at the following URL (All stories are downloadable in PDF format).

Downloaded PDF files will be issued for a limited period of time until March 2012. Posting URLs through e-mail or copying issues onto secondary distribution is　permitted. (All sales, commercial enterprises and reproduction on any printed media by third parties other than the publisher, the writer or individuals whose permissions are granted by the writer, is prohibited.　In addition, all data alteration is prohibited).

Readers of these stories would be greatly appreciated for voluntary donations to the Japanese Red Cross Society bank account, global Red Cross Societies and to organizations supporting natural disaster relief. In case of data transfer, we suggest you send us notification beforehand.

How to purchase the Waseda Bungaku charity contents(the Waseda Bungakukai Web site)