David Gordon is the author of two novels and a collection of short stories, “White Tiger on Snow Mountain,” out...
Japan
The 128-page novella won Yasushi Inoue the prestigious Akutagawa Prize, and succinctly captures the national psyche of the postwar years...
Review of “The Shogun’s Daughter" by Laura Joh Rowland: The Japan Times At the climax of “Shinju”(1994), Laura Joh Rowland’s first mystery...
The Asahi Shimbun AJW’s series on internationally acclaimed writer Haruki Murakami Haruki Murakami, among the world’s most celebrated authors, was...
“Haiku,” edited by haiku practitioner David Cobb, and “Haiku Love,” edited by Japanese language scholar Alan Cummings, are both fun...
The maelstrom of Man Booker attention is only now starting to quieten down, but Ruth Ozeki tells The Japan Times...
The Aesthetics of Strangeness: Eccentricity and Madness in Early Modern Japan by W. Puck Brecher Misfits. Oddballs. Bohemians. In Tokugawa Japan?...
Chris Randle reviews the book in the LARB In 2000, I was 12 years old, playing the brand-new Sega game Jet...
Victoria James reviews Shunga: Sex and Pleasure in Japanese Art in The Japan Times It looks like a classic coffee-table...
Author Barry Lancet reveals how his years as an editor in Tokyo shaped his thriller "Japantown": The Japan Times The...
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