As someone who enjoys reading and discussing Japanese literature, I have been pleasantly surprised by the growing number of translated Japanese books that have come out in the U.S. in recent years.

There are a lot of reasons to start your kids learning a new language: preparation for a move to a new country, giving them greater ability to communicate with relatives and friends or simply to ...

I have such fond memories of the London Olympics. The oddity of returning from holiday to find not the usual shifty-looking youths at my local railway station in South-East London, but helpful ‘games ...

One of the biggest foreign rights stories in book publishing this year is the resurgence in popularity of Japanese fiction, from ‘cozy lit’ to feminist crime. Its unique qualities are not just the ...

GOVERNMENT BY ASSASSINATION—Hugh Byas—Knopf ($3). With the possible exception of Joseph Clark Grew, there is no one as well qualified to explain the Japanese to Americans as Hugh Byas. Ambassador Grew ...