Author of Before the Coffee Gets Cold

Toshikazu Kawaguchi 川口 俊和

If you could go back, just once — who would you want to see?

Toshikazu Kawaguchi is a Japanese playwright, director, and novelist. His novel Before the Coffee Gets Cold began life on the stage and has since become a global phenomenon — translated into dozens of languages and read by millions of people around the world. His stories return, again and again, to a single tender question: what would you do with one more cup of time?