From the deadly serious and deeply weird to the fluffiest of diversions, a bounty of Japanese fiction in translation has ...

The collection is designed to promote the teaching of cultural studies of Japan while developing students’ knowledge and skills in literacy and communication. Each of the six lessons features an ...

The faces behind Japan’s post-war turbulence, restlessness and extreme passion. In the first part of our series, focusing on ...

Accept and continue Prof Andrew Gerstle teaches pre-modern Japanese texts ... which claimed to explore "book madness" - the act of being unable to stop collecting literature.

Angles is a prominent translator of modern Japanese literature, with several volumes of Japanese literature in translation to his name. His book "Forest of Eyes: Selected Poems of Tada Chimako," ...

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Check if you have access via personal or institutional login Despite the great interest in and the availability of enormous literature about education in Japan, this book is a translation of the first ...

He was 96. Keene, one of the foremost Western scholars of Japanese literature, often likened his relationship with Japan to a marriage. He even decided to become a citizen after the 2011 ...

a Japanese literature professor at Gifu Women's University. The new book is a radical rewrite of his novella of the same name, first published in a magazine in 1980. The author said he believed ...

Butter by Japanese author Asako Yuzuki has been named the 2024 Waterstones Book Of The Year. The foodie mystery novel follows a Tokyo female journalist who tries to interview a female gourmet cook and ...

A perennial front-runner for the Nobel Prize in Literature ... Light Years” — a book that heralded a bold new voice who shunned haiku and other traditional Japanese forms of verse.