I’ve been in Japan for less than 24 hours and somehow, I’ve found myself in a ruby-red basement bar watching an 89-year-old ...

One of Japan’s four haiku masters, Shiki nailed the art of writing ... each contains lead pencils and slips of paper in English or Japanese, with instructions like: “The topic should be ...

Shuntaro Tanikawa, who pioneered modern Japanese poetry, poignant but conversational in its divergence from haiku and other traditions, has died. He was 92. Tanikawa, who translated the Peanuts ...

Shuntaro Tanikawa, who pioneered modern Japanese poetry, poignant but conversational in its divergence from haiku and other traditions, has died. He was 92. Tanikawa, who translated the “Peanuts ...

As the capital of Wakayama Prefecture, the city itself is not a tourist attraction but has seen increasing numbers of Chinese visitors as a stopping point linking Osaka and the famous Kumano Kodo ...