By Damian Flanagan The other day I had the pleasure of attending a very interesting presentation about antique books by an ...

This course consists of close reading, lecture, and discussion concerning representative works of literature and drama from ancient to early modern Japan. Theoretical analysis will be integrated with ...

Lost revenue from illegal online viewing of Japanese manga and other publications worldwide was estimated at around 8.5 ...

The Akutagawa Prize and Naoki Prize, regarded as prestigious literary awards in Japan, did not have any winners this year. This is the first time in 27 years that both awards have failed to select a ...

Lost revenue from illegal online viewing of Japanese manga and other publications worldwide was estimated at around ¥8.5 ...

Sagawa Chika, born Kawasaki Ai in 1911, died of stomach cancer in 1936, before her twenty-fifth birthday. Even with such a brief career, she was one of the most innovative and prominent avant-garde ...

Until the 1990s, Ukrainian and Taiwanese literature shared a similar fate on the map of world literature: rarely translated, outsiders perceived them as a literary subset of their larger neighbor, ...

If you’ve followed any of the headlines emerging about the “comfort women” in the past weeks—or months, or years, or decades—you probably have some questions. Did the Japanese government really coerce ...

TOKYO - Japan’s first literary vending machine was installed at the Setagaya Literary Museum in Setagaya Ward, Tokyo in October. When a user touches a button shown on the screen, a story that can be ...

On a quiet street in Tokyo's Jimbocho district, known for its secondhand bookstores and publishing houses, one shop stands out: Chekccori. The store's shelves are lined with Korean literature ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - It's a plot that could almost have come from Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami, the wildly popular author known for writing about disillusionment, who has been a top pick for the ...