How ‘butter’ became a feminist phenomenon
TOKYO: Japanese writer Asako Yuzuki did not expect the butter’s novel to conceive a cult after abroad, greeting as a bite of feminist criticism of sexism and body. Translated into English last year, the story of the murder and Misogyny has thrown an insatiable appetite, selling 610,000 copies abroad, including 400,000 in Britain – more than Japan – where he won multiple awards. Yuzuki was inspired by the real story of Black Widow Kanae Kijima, a woman sentenced to death in 2012 for poisoning three men who met in dating areas. The impressive media coverage at that time focused largely
