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Part two of Nip the Buds closes out with pandemic hysteria, Zainichi Koreans, and a strange youthful love store.

A special thanks to the translators of the novel, Maki Sugiyama and writer and poet Paul StJohn Mackintosh, for letting us read selections of their work. You can find the latter at his website, here.

This episode is part of our post-war Japanese literature cycle.