EDITORIAL by Gwen Davies EAST ASIAN LITERATURE 'The River Claims Its Debt' - Story by Phüc Ti n, translated from the Vietnamese by Nguy n An Lý 'Powder to the People! The philosophy of Hokkaido capitalist ski bum, Jack Philips' - Biography/oral history by Susan Karen Burton 'Hi-Mawari', the lost Welsh story of Lafcadio Hearn (alias Koizumi Yakumo) -Translated from the Japanese Jayne Joso on how Japan shapes her work FURTHER FICTION 'The Banana Banshee' - Story by Deidre Brennan, translated from the Irish by the author REVIEW-ESSAYS Steven Lovatt on restoring natural and cultural ecologies in the work of Ruth Bidgood, Rae Howells and Carwyn Graves JL George on trauma and the magical child in recent novels by Lloyd Markham, Carly Holmes and Vajra Chandrasekera