Imagine getting to stay in a hotel that also doubles up as a library, or for that matter, a bookstore. No wonder such a thing makes for a lip-smacking proposition for die-hard book lovers and the nice ...

Want to explore Tokyo like a local?! Watch this first! I spent 2 days in Tokyo with some amazing locals guiding me to the ...

A ripped copy of Anne Frank's "Diary of a Young Girl" picture book is shown by Shinjuku City Library Director Kotaro Fujimaki at the library in Tokyo Friday, Feb. 21, 2014. Tokyo Libraries said on ...

BLACK SNOW: Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo and the Road to the Atomic Bomb. By James M. Scott. Norton. 448 pages. $35. The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945 may have ...

Tokyo Ghoul stands as one of Japan’s top-selling franchises, and much of that success falls to Sui Ishida. The artist gave readers a stunning and somewhat uncomfortable look into the life of Ken ...

It sometimes seems that there are two infallible routes to success as a Japanese writer in English translation: 1) be called Murakami and 2) don’t not be called Murakami. Haruki Murakami’s dreamlike, ...

TOKYO (AP) — The final price tag for last year’s COVID-delayed Tokyo Olympics was put at $13 billion (1.4 trillion Japanese yen), the organizing committee said Tuesday in its final act before it is ...