He is currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. His research interests include interwar and postwar Japanese literature, Japanese ...

Rie Kudan, a 33-year-old Japanese author, clinched the coveted Akutagawa Prize for her science fiction novel, “Tokyo-to Dojo-to” (Tokyo Sympathy Tower), which delves into the intricacies of a ...

April is Autism Awareness Month Naoki Higashida is a nonverbal autistic author whose work has been ... One by one, Naoki points to each hiragana (Japanese phonetic symbols) character to make ...

He was 96. Keene, one of the foremost Western scholars of Japanese literature, often likened his relationship with Japan to a marriage. He even decided to become a citizen after the 2011 ...

As the first half of the 2020s comes to a close, one global literary trend shows no signs of abating: a hunger for the stories of Japanese writers. The past five years saw authors from Japan win ...

Renowned Japanese author Haruki Murakami expressed joy with how several of his short stories were adapted in American director Pierre Földes’ animated film “Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman ...

The acclaimed author shared stories of growing up in a Japanese American internment camp during World War II in her 1973 ...

Who doesn't want to feel a sense of pure happiness and joy in their lives? Many of us dedicate a great deal of time, resources, and energy to achieving a fulfilling life that gives us a sense of ...