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

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Whiskey stands as a testament to the artistry of distillation, a liquid symphony made with grain, water, and time. From the ...

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The Korea Times is delighted to announce the winners of its 55th Modern Korean Literature Translation Awards. This year, the Grand Prize in fiction, awarded by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and ...

Han Kang, the South Korean winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature, made her breakthrough in the English-speaking world with her first translated novel (her third in Korean), The Vegetarian.

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What does a Japanese person recall? Doraemon, the friendly robot helper of an enormously popular eponymous anime series. So goes an anecdote making the rounds in Japanese tech circles. It suggests ...

and my travels across the region revealed how residents maintain local traditions under these modern pressures. Of Japan’s four main islands, Kyushu is the second smallest, after Shikoku.

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To celebrate the Modern Love column’s 20th anniversary this month, we put together a special package of articles exploring the column’s history and impact. By Miya Lee Miya Lee is the Modern ...