Japan's popular book series "Before the Coffee Gets Cold" began as a play before a publisher asked author Toshikazu Kawaguchi ...

Libraries in contemporary Japanese and Korean fiction are evolving into spaces where reading offers solace, connection, and ...

Three books won Japan’s Akutagawa Prize in 2024. This prestigious prize is awarded to “new” writers of literature, who may have published works, but are not considered established.

Shortly after the end of the devastating war, a book on English conversation came out and became the first postwar best-seller in Japan. Published on Sept. 15, 1945, just one month after the ...

Chinese books have been brought to Japan ever since. Many of the volumes now sold in Jimbocho cannot be found back in China. Past and present of Chinese literature ...

A meticulously researched book on Japan’s visual evolution and the product of 15 years of research and production, “Fracture” excavates the country’s complex relationship with modernity ...