Contributors Sayaka Murata, Toshika Okada, David Mitchell, Ruth Ozeki, Kyoko Nakajima, Tao Lin, Yuij Kawakami, Kimoko Hahn, Hiroko Oyamada, Yumiko Utsu, Pico Iyer, Andrés Felipe Solano, Toh EnJoe, David Peace, Daisuke Yokota, Adam Johnson, Yukiko Motoya, Rebecca Solnit, Tomoyuki Hoshino.

Everyone knows this country and no one knows it. This issue presents twenty new Japans by its writers and artists, and by residents and visitors and neighbours. A special edition of Granta published simultaneously in Japanese and English.