A Japanese picture book series featuring a gentle veterinarian and his animal patients is winning the hearts of readers across China, where illustrated children’s books had been a rarity until ...

Japanese author Kuroyanagi Tetsuko attended a book launch event at a bookstore ... She also serves as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Children's Fund and remains one of Japan's ...

A children's mobile library run by a Japanese expat in northern Thailand has become more important than ever during the coronavirus pandemic. Horiuchi Yoshimi sees books as "friends" for the ...