THE Japanese poem is the dewdrop that holds a rainbow in its heart. In order to enjoy it, one must take the rainbow out of the dewdrop and spread it across the firmament. Japanese poems are very short ...

TOKYO (AP) — A poem about the Japanese coastline devastated by last year’s earthquake and tsunami was among the winners in the annual Imperial Palace poetry contest and was read as part of a solemn ...

A film inspired by the story of a young Ainu woman who translated into Japanese an epic poem passed down orally among the indigenous people of Hokkaido will soon have a wide domestic release. The ...

It's not a good sign when, on the way home after seeing a play titled as this is, one is trying to make up one's own Japanese poems. Here's one such attempt: "When you write a play/Do not call it ...