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

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

We explore Japan’s latest document regarding AI, NFTs, and robots and evaluate the true cost of Japan’s tech boom.

The Department of World Languages and Cultures Italian program at UMass Lowell (UML) is honored to welcome Nobel Prize nominee for literature Dacia Maraini. Join us for a conversation with Maraini on ...

In these works, the individual is often positioned as part of a greater cosmic order. In Japan, literature has similarly been shaped by spiritual and cultural traditions, particularly Buddhism, ...

He taught us English as a professional teacher and studied French literature as an earnest graduate student in the university located in the same compound. 4. On the day when I consulted him, he ...

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This course provides an introduction to modern Japanese literature through the reading of a selection of representative texts in translation. Each week we will look at one significant work of Japanese ...

According to the Japan Publishing Organization for Information Infrastructure Development, there were 10,918 bookstores nationwide in fiscal 2023, having declined by 30% over the preceding decade. In ...