In another novel from here, a professor's girlfriend receives a phone call telling her to get an abortion as part of a (*) future-predicting computer's scheme to help a marine biology lab create Aquans.
The protagonist of one novel from this country claims that "entrails" is a synonym for "a woman" during a rooftop game of antonyms that leads him to contemplate Crime and Punishment. In that novel from this country, the sexually irresistible protagonist attends secret Communist meetings and paints a Modigliani-inspired self-portrait before being expelled from art school for squandering his uncle's finances on liquor after failing to drown himself. In another novel from here, a professor's girlfriend receives a phone call telling her to get an abortion as part of a (*) future-predicting computer's scheme to help a marine biology lab create Aquans. A flute-playing priest uses his clubfeet to seduce women in a novel from here that ends with a stuttering acolyte burning down the title structure. For 10 points, name this home country of the authors of No Longer Human, Inter Ice Age 4 and The Temple of the Golden Pavilion.
The protagonist of one novel from this country claims that "entrails" is a synonym for "a woman" during a rooftop game of antonyms that leads him to contemplate Crime and Punishment.
Japan [or Nippon-koku; or Nihon-koku; accept Land of the Rising Sun or other nicknames]