Sake, the drink of choice for the nobility in “The Tale of Genji” — Japan's most celebrated work of literature — has been ...

Japanese literature has long emphasized the transient nature of life ... blending contemporary issues with ancient wisdom. Western art, like its literature, has been deeply influenced by the Classical ...

Shuntaro Tanikawa, who pioneered modern Japanese poetry, poignant but conversational in its divergence from haiku and other ...

This effectively means variations in modern day Japanese genetic patterns can be explained by the historical influence of ancient Jomon hunter-gatherers and two continental groups from Northeast ...

The literature prize has long faced criticism that it is too focused on European and North American writers of style-heavy, story-light prose. It has also been male-dominated — Han is only the ...

Author Anthony Horowitz introduces English Literature and Language clips from the BBC archive featuring famous faces including Stephen Fry, Kate Humble and Griff Rhys Jones. Creativity is everywhere.

Ancient Greek and Latin literature (covering a period from approximately 800 BC to 500 AD) is in many ways the basis of our own culture and our own way of thinking; numerous literary texts of ...

Despite an incredibly rich prehistory covering nearly ten thousand years, modern coverage of complex hunter-gatherer societies has tended to overlook the Jomon of Japan. This text presents an overview ...

Located north of Osaka Prefecture, Kyoto Prefecture is easily accessible from Osaka — the venue of the 2025 World Expo — via public transport such as Japan Railway, Hankyu Railways and ...

It is conceivable that Makibi stopped by Luoyang on the way to Japan. Haruyuki Tono, director of the Takeda Science Foundation Kyou Shooku, who specializes in ancient Japanese history, said ...

More than a century ago, the scientist Alfred Wegener proposed the notion of an ancient supercontinent ... Laura holds a bachelor's degree in English literature and psychology from Washington ...