Monkey Business International is the in-translation offspring of the Tokyo-based magazine Monkey Business, which was founded in 2008 by Motoyuki Shibata, one of Japan’s most highly regarded men of letters. MBI aims to translate and present a wide array of established and emerging authors, showcasing the best of contemporary Japanese literature. With the generous support of the Nippon Foundation, A Public Space is the publisher and partner of Monkey Business International. MB and APS first conceived of MBI when Shibata curated a portfolio of Japanese literature in the debut issue of APS. Issue 5 kicks off with “Photographs are Images”, a vignette by Aoko Matsuda, one of Japan’s most promising young novelists. Haruki Murakami graces the pages of Monkey once more, this time offering advice for new and aspiring young writers. American and British authors such as Kelly Link, Liard Hunt, and Matthew Sharpe join Japanese authors Hideo Furukawa, Masatsugu Ono, and Hiromi Kawakami; along with comic and graphic artists Satoshi Kitamura and Ben Katchor. These and many more of the best contemporary voices of Japanese and American literature make up the lyrical and literary prose of this newest issue of Monkey Business.

“An astonishment, by turns playful and profound, that makes you wish it were a monthly.” —Junot Diaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao “Monkey Business is full of deep, funny, wild, scary, fabulous, moving, surprising, brilliant work. There is no literary magazine, no magazine period, that I get more excited about reading.” —Laird Hunt, author of Neverhome “I feel my brain being reconfigured every time I read Monkey Business. The Japanese sense of story is very different from the American or Western sense of story, and it always opens up possibilities for me.” —Matthew Sharpe, author of Jamestown Since its first issue in 2011, Monkey Business: New Writing from Japan has showcased the best of contemporary Japanese literature. Monkey Business features the short fiction and poetry of writers such as Hideo Furukawa, Mina Ishikawa, Hiromi Ito, Mieko Kawakami, Sachiko Kishimoto, Hiromi Kawakami, Aoko Matsuda, and Yoko Ogawa; interviews and essays by writers such as Haruki Murakami; new translations of the work of earlier writers such as Rampo Edogawa, Kafu Nagai, and Soseki Natsume; and graphic stories by Satoshi Kitamura and the Brother and Sister Nishioka. Issue 6 kicks off with Part 10 of “The Forbidden Diary”, the ongoing serialization of a fictional diary by Sachiko Kishimoto. Aoko Matsuda, one of Japan’s most promising young writers, graces the pages of Monkey once more with her short story "Love Isn't Easy When You're the National Anthem". American and British authors such as Kelly Link, Linh Dinh, and Jason Hrivnak join contemporary Japanese authors Hideo Furukawa, Tomoka Shibasaki, and Hiromi Kawakami; as well as new translations from classic Japanese novelists Soseki Natsume and Shin'ichi Hoshi. These and many more of the best contemporary voices of Japanese and American literature make up the lyrical and literary prose of this newest issue of Monkey Business.

Now celebrating its seventh year, Issue 7 of Monkey Business features stories by some of the best contemporary literary voices in Japan today, including Hideo Furukawa, Hiromi Ito, Hiroko Oyamada, and Aoko Matsuda. Canadian and American authors Helen Guri and Brian Evenson also join this amazing line up, and amongst the pages of the latest Monkey also lies a graphic narrative by Satoshi Kitamura, and an interview between Monkey man Motoyuki Shibata and Haruki Murakami. These and many more of the best contemporary voices of Japanese and American literature make up the lyrical and literary prose of this newest issue of Monkey Business. Since its first issue in 2011, Monkey Business: New Writing from Japan has showcased the best of contemporary Japanese literature. Monkey Business features the short fiction and poetry of writers such as Hideo Furukawa, Mina Ishikawa, Hiromi Ito, Mieko Kawakami, Sachiko Kishimoto, Hiromi Kawakami, Aoko Matsuda, and Yoko Ogawa; interviews and essays by writers such as Haruki Murakami; new translations of the work of earlier writers such as Rampo Edogawa, Kafu Nagai, and Soseki Natsume; and graphic stories by Satoshi Kitamura and the Brother and Sister Nishioka. Monkey Business: New Writing from Japan is an annual English-language edition of the acclaimed literary magazine.