By Damian Flanagan More than 3,000 women and almost 900 men — that’s the number of lovers the main protagonist...
Japan
Those who were in Japan in the winter of 1973-74 will recall the aftermath of the Arab-Israeli War: many public...
Handwritten manuscripts of four early works by renowned Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) have been discovered, a literature museum in...
In “Countdown to Pearl Harbor,” Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Twomey vividly retells and reappraises the events leading to the Pearl...
A common perception abroad is that Japanese society is docile. This is partly thanks to Western writers who tried to...
Are light novels "literature?" With their fantastic elements, casual writing style and dialogue, and young demographics, Japanese generally do not...
By Zafar Anjum Hiroshi Kato Haiku is a globally popular literary form. The earliest westerner known to have written haiku...
As Japan & South Korea reach an agreement on the painful subject, some books to help the reader untangle the...
So few teaching opportunities existed for a young Japan scholar in late 1940s America that a professor suggested he teach...
Novelist Haruki Murakami on Tuesday won the 2016 Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award, a prize in Denmark whose past laureates...
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