In today’s day and age, everybody is going through something, whether it because of a toxic work environment, peer pressure, ...

Browse a rack of translated Japanese literature these days and you’re likely to spot a certain motif among the book covers: cats. Often recognized as an atmospheric trope or plot device in the ...

Angles is a prominent translator of modern Japanese literature, with several volumes of Japanese literature in translation to his name. His book "Forest of Eyes: Selected Poems of Tada Chimako," ...

He was 96. Keene, one of the foremost Western scholars of Japanese literature, often likened his relationship with Japan to a marriage. He even decided to become a citizen after the 2011 ...

(Mainichi/Motoko Hamada) Japan's annual "book week" period is underway ... Books are not only a source of knowledge. Literature, such as poetry and novels, can liberate the reader's soul into ...

Regular bookstores sell books that are popular... while excluding books that don’t sell well,” said one shop owner. “We ...