With the announcement of the 2017 Nobel Prize winners, British contemporary author Kazuo Ishiguro joins the small but extremely talented cohort of writers from Japan or...
Yasunari Kawabata
By Kris Kosaka Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata’s “Beauty and Sadness” is a sparse and elegant dissection of the messiest...
By Louise George Kittaka The first Japanese winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1968, Yasunari Kawabata, deals with...
Though, be warned, while “Snow Country” is often called a love story — between an onsen (hot spring) geisha and a rich...
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