Literary Bridge-Builder: An Interview with Shibata Motoyuki

Deborah Treisman, fiction editor at the "New Yorker," and John Freeman, editor of "Granta"

Best-selling Japanese novelist Kakuta Mitsuyo ("The Eighth Day") and English writer Geoff Dyer, whose book about jazz, "But Beautiful," was recently translated into Japanese by Murakami Haruki

Akutagawa Prize–winners Hirano Keiichirō (left) and Wataya Risa

Jonathan Safran Foer ("Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close") and Kawakami Mieko, who won the Akutagawa Prize for her novel "Chichi to ran" (Breasts and Egg)

Ono Masatsugu

Michael Emmerich

Juno Díaz (right) with his Japanese translator Tokō Kōji

Elmer Luke, the editor who brought Murakami Haruki to the attention of readers outside Japan

Shibata Motoyuki (center) performs in a dramatized performance based on Miyazawa Kenji’s Night on the Galactic Express at a music club in Roppongi during the festival.