The colonial map of Asia, 1921, courtesy Wikipedia. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en Thailand was probably the only state in South East Asia...
Japanese literature
In Japan, female writers are stars within the country’s literary sphere, even if on the international stage their light seems...
1. Once a conversation with an Australian friend surprised me; she told me that Haruki Murakami, the world-famous Japanese novelist, struck...
Japanese fiction needs to be read slowly. It deserves that. You cannot rush through it – even if it is...
We love Murakami, and all the cats, jazz, whiskey bars, mysterious women, and glimpses at modern Japanese life that populate...
Literature experts as well as descendants of two famous Asian writers met in east China to boost friendly communication between...
If you had to pick one book to introduce Japanese culture, what would you choose? For the translator and poet...
By Kris Kosaka Those with an interest in feudal Japan are urged not to miss Eiji Yoshikawa’s samurai epic,...
By William Grimes Burton Watson, whose spare, limpid translations, with erudite introductions, opened up the world of classical Japanese and...
By Kris Kosaka Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata’s “Beauty and Sadness” is a sparse and elegant dissection of the messiest...
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