Dazai Osamu Wants Us To Feel Less Alone - Unseen Japan

Dazai Osamu Wants Us To Feel Less Alone - Unseen Japan

He’s known as one of Japan’s most prolific and important writers. Now, with the release of a newly translated collection of short stories, Dazai Osamu—known in equal measure for his writing as for his death—is once more laying bare his deepest insecurities and vulnerabilities. (Content warning: Discussions of suicide) The Japanese literary legend at his most tormented A young Dazai Osamu. On a warm summer day in 1948, the Japanese writer Dazai O…