Japanese literature - first recommendations

The one Japanese thing I`ve been really interested in before coming here, was Japanese literature and I have read quite a bit more since. So in this post I`d like to give recommendations for those who are interested in reading Japanese authors. After all, I was member of a literature club in Basel and maybe you girls back home want some tips since we never got to read Japanese authors in the club...
Here are the first two recommendations by two contemporary Japanese authors. I really like Ishiguro`s work, I have read almost all of his novels by now. He is maybe not strictly a Japanese author as he has been living in the UK for a long time and is publishing in English only. But definitely worth reading
Kazuo Ishiguro, "Never let me go" ("Alles was wir geben mussten"), 2005
The novel is set in rural England, sometime in the near future. Young people are living in a strict boarding school on the countryside. But they are not there to be educated for their future, they are clones and their reason for being is to serve as a human spare parts stock and are taught how to be good at that and are taken care of after each operation to continue serving until the lethal operation is necessary. The youth, despite being brainwashed that their existence serves only one purpose, try desperately to give their existence sense and maintain relationsships. This novel is a chilling future vision and was named one of the most relevant books of the year. Ishiguro is a Japanese native living in the UK and has published many other novels, among them the novel turned into a film "The remains of the day". Another novel of his that I highly recommend is "An artist of the floating world" which deals with the Japanese "day zero" after WWII and the question of individual guilt and collaboration with the previous regime.
Hitomi Kanehara - "Snakes and Earrings" ("Tokio Love") 2004
Lui is the typical Tokyo Barbie Girl, cute looking with a single focus: consumption, her nickname being a derivate of Louis Vuitton. But Lui is attracted to men with a darker side, her boyfriend being a instable punk and her lover a tatoo artist fantasizing to kill her. The menage a trois is linked by their interest in body art, tatoos and more extreme forms of piercings and modifications. Working towards Lui`s split tongue, the three delve deeper and deeper into sex and violence. Kanehara is in her twenties and considered one of Japan`s most promising young authors. "Snake and earrings" earned her two of the most relevant literature prizes. "Autofiction" is another work of hers that has been translated and well acclaimed.