By Iain Maloney The third issue of the “Tokyo Poetry Journal” takes music as its central theme and, rather in...
Japanese literature
By Shinya Machida Six young translators of Japanese literature from inside and outside the country were invited to participate in...
By Louise George Kittaka Banana Yoshimoto found fame in 1988 when her wildly successful debut novel “Kitchen” was published. Her...
By Damian Flanagan Japan began to open its doors to the West in the 1850s, after centuries of remaining closed. In...
By Damian Flanagan More than 3,000 women and almost 900 men — that’s the number of lovers the main protagonist...
Chika Sagawa is an anomaly in the history of Japanese poetry. Born in Hokkaido as Aiko Kawasaki in 1911, she...
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...
It was a gray and drizzly afternoon when Yoko Tawada and I crossed under a green-and-gold paifang to meet with...
At the opening of Chinese-American author Geling Yan’s best-selling novel “Little Aunt Crane,” a 16-year-old girl by the name of...
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