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 ...

TOKYO (AP) — 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 ...

Japan has long been one of the most popular overseas destinations for Chinese tourists. While tourist attractions such as ...

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 ...

TOKYO (AP) — 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 ...