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This fifth volume, Japanese Theater of the 1970s, treats six plays. Crime is the dominant subject. Three plays are about homicide, two are about other criminal offenses against public order and society, and one is about survival during times of war. While many of the human relations depicted in these works illustrate exploitation and brutalization, the touch of the playwrights is often surprisingly light and humorous. These dramas offer serious but enjoyable reading.

Contents: The Amida Black Chant Murder Mystery (Fujita Den); The Atami Murder Case (Tsuka Kohei); Mystery Tour...

In this fourth volume in the series, five playwrights portray diverse human predicaments whose common concern is the conflict between self-determination and social discrimination. The different approaches are spiced with a piquant sense of humor.

Contents: Ode to Joy (Kitamura So); Nippon Wars (Kawamura Takeshi); A Legend of Mermaids (Chong Wishing); Thread Hell (Kishida Rio); The Red Demon Akaoni (Noda Hideki).

Half a Century of Japanese Theater is a series of translated Japanese plays that begins from the contemporary theater scene of the 1990s and moves back through the decades of modern Japanese theater to the mid-twentieth century.

The threefold aim of the Japan Playwrights Association in publishing this series is to offer performable English translations of modern Japanese plays, to encourage the production of such plays by foreign theatrical troupes and to extend possibilities for further international exchange in theater.

This volume treats six plays by major playwrights and a...