The superb Kondansha publication, Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopaedia, has a lengthy entry on Mori Ogai (1862-1922). From a family of...
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Novelist Anuradha Kumar interviews Singapore-based novelist Meira Chand Meira Chand the novelist and short story writer has lived in the...
You might be surprised to hear that the latest Tom Cruise science-fiction epic, “Edge of Tomorrow,” which hit theaters here...
Novelist Hiroshi Tamai, a 79-year-old self-described “peasant writer,” is proud that he persisted with his craft through the toughest years...
Review of The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide The story is that of a couple in their mid- to late-30s,...
Fifteen years after its publication, Koushun Takami's shocking tale of school children trapped in a fight till death is still...
Hisaki Matsuura, a professor in the French department at Tokyo University, is clearly comfortable in the place where the gothic...
The No. 1 best-seller “The Reason I Jump” is now available in paperback. Written by Naoki Higashida, an autistic Japanese...
Developments in digital printing, combined with Internet-based marketing, have allowed small publishers to flourish. The Japan Times takes a look...
Three years ago this March, a 9-magnitude earthquake, the strongest ever known to hit Japan, created a tsunami that killed...
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