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Yuki Tejima

Yuki Tejima is a translator from Los Angeles who is currently based in Tokyo. Her translations from Japanese into English include Mizuki Tsujimura’s novels Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon (Doubleday, 2025) and How to Hold Someone in Your Heart (Doubleday, 2025), Someone to Watch Over You (Pushkin Press, 2025) by Kumi Kimura, When the Museum is Closed by Emi Yagi (Harvill, 2025), Then Why'd You Ask Me to Come? by Risa Wataya (Strangers Press, 2025), and the sequel to Tetsuko Kuroyanagi’s best-selling memoir Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window 2 (Kodansha, 2025).

Literary Translation

April 2025
Doubleday

Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon

By Mizuki Tsujimura

『ツナグ』 著:辻村深月

April 2025
Pushkin Press

Someone to Watch Over You

By Kumi Kimura 

『あなたに安全な人』 著:木村紅美

July 2025
Harvill

When the Museum is Closed  

By Emi Yagi 

『休館日の彼女たち』 著:八木詠美

September 2025
Kodansha

Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window 2 

By Tetsuko Kuroyanagi 

『続 窓ぎわのトットちゃん』 著:黒柳徹子

October 2025
Doubleday

How to Hold Someone in your Heart 

By Mizuki Tsujimura

『ツナグ 想い人の心得』 著:辻村深月

TBD
Strangers Press

Then Why’d You Ask Me To Come? 

By Risa Wataya

『嫌いなら呼ぶなよ』 著:綿矢りさ

Awards & Mentorships

2023

PEN Presents Grant - English PEN (UK)

Shortlisted for Unsocial Distance by Hitomi Kanehara

2022-2023

American Literary Translators Association (US)  - Emerging Translator Mentorship Program / Mentored by David Boyd

2021-2022

National Centre for Writing (UK) - Emerging Translator Mentorship Program / Mentored by Juliet Winters Carpenter

2020

Japanese Literature Publishing Project (JLPP) International Translation Competition - 2nd Prize Winner

© 2025 by Yuki Tejima

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