It’s Nobel season again, and Japanese author Haruki Murakami is being touted as the front-runner to win the Swedish Academy’s...
Japanese literature
Haiku, the short Japanese poem now proliferating overseas, scarcely needs an introduction anymore. Its three great pillars, widely read even...
Japan is a safe, polite society in which occasionally hyper-violent crimes are committed that shock the world. They do not...
A Japanese school board on Monday scrapped curbs on children’s access to an iconic anti-war comic, following criticism from those...
Hadashi No Gen (Barefoot Gen), about aftermath of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, was removed from libraries in Matsue city,...
Review of A True Novel by Minae Mizumura, trans. from the Japanese by Juliet Winters Carpenter and Ann Sherif. Other...
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