Missing for decades from the Anglophile version of its origin story was another great visual narrative tradition, of the East ...

LONDON -- English translations of Japanese novels are becoming best sellers in Britain. Asako Yuzuki's "Butter" has sold ...

At the Alliance Literature Festival in Bengaluru, the winner of the Lindsley and Masao Miyoshi Translation Prize (2020-2021) ...

What's with all the cats in Japanese literature? In the few books I have read, one thing has grabbed my attention again and again—the presence of feline characters, especially cats, on the covers.

Since most day-to-day operations in journalism are far from glamorous, it's fun to dig into stories where reporters are leading more exciting lives. Enter Jake Adelstein and "Tokyo Vice: An American ...

If you're into Japanese literature but feel it's time to look beyond Haruki Murakami, here are five authors waiting to be your next favourite ...

With reading clubs sprouting across India and abroad, people's reading habits that once were languishing due to social media, ...

A century ago, Edogawa Ranpo invented the Japanese detective novel. This pioneer of ero-guro-nansensu, a delicious blend of ...

Saito Mariko, received the Yomiuri Prize for Literature, announced the Literature Translation Institute of Korea on Thursday.

Tokimasa Sekiguchi, 74, a prominent Japanese scholar specialising in Polish literature, has received the Gold Gloria Artis ...

Quite remarkably, while successfully celebrating literature and culture, the Kokrajhar Literature Festival also emphasized ...

The best-selling author and frontwoman of Japanese Breakfast confronts ambition and desire on her new album, ‘For Melancholy ...