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 ...

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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," ...

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 ...

sometimes called the Little Nobel Prize for Literature. The jury described the "ineffable charm" of Ms Kadono's picture books and novels, deeply rooted in Japan. She was inspired to write her most ...

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.