The Japanese government is to award medals to three Taiwanese in recognition of their contributions to promoting bilateral exchanges, Japan’s...
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The author T.C. Boyle in the preface to his book “Stories II” published last year made a convincing argument that...
One newcomer to the world of literary journals in Japan is an old hand at literature, and straddles both financial...
“Parade” by Suichi Yushida was originally published in Japan in 2002 Beautifully banal. Perhaps not the most positive-sounding turn of...
It’s not surprising to see foreign academic and cultural interest in the phenomenon of shut-ins. In 2012, that curiosity sparked...
“Japan has her secrets, as you well know,” a Kyoto art dealer named Takahashi tells American Jim Brodie. “Many are...
Officials at Knopf announced today that they will publish The Strange Library, an illustrated story by Haruki Murakami. The book will...
You wouldn’t expect a punk musician to write decent novels, any more than you’d expect a boxer to be good...
As a child living in a tiny apartment in Singapore, Wena Poon listened to radio plays broadcast in a variety...
Books and publications carrying disparaging content about South Korea and China have been growing in popularity in Japan to the point that some bookstores even have a dedicated corner for such xenophobic material. But to fully understand the recent rise in this trend, beyond Japan's recent trials and tribulations with some of its closest neighbors over territorial and historical issues, anthropologists advocate looking at the situation from a historical and psychological perspective. (more…)
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