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

Accept and continue Prof Andrew Gerstle teaches pre-modern Japanese texts ... which claimed to explore "book madness" - the act of being unable to stop collecting literature.

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," ...

Angles won the prize—comparable to America's Pulitzer Prize—for his book of Japanese-language poetry "Watashi no hizukehenkōsen" ("My International Date Line"), which was published by Shichōsha in ...

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 ...

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 ...

His first book was published in 1979 ... Since then the writer has popularized Japanese literature at an unprecedented scale. While Murakami certainly heightened international awareness of ...

(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 ...