I invite you to sample four tasty literary courses that present, for your delectation, the trials and travails of post-war Japanese women.

A study of selected extracts in the original Japanese from the work of major modern writers. The fourth number of the course code shows the level of the course. For example, in course 219206, the ...

The MA program in Japanese is designed to provide advanced-level training in Japanese language, literature and civilization, with the aim of preparing students for both Japan-related professional ...

Isaka is one of Japan’s most popular crime authors ... Instead, publishers represent them for each work. Saegusa and Terada set up a literary agency before founding a company in 2017 to handle ...

We regularly offer two seminars each semester, typically one on premodern texts and another on modern literature. Depending on your interests, you may also consider coursework in other departments on ...

Keene continued to work into old age ... I am sure he lived a happy life dedicated to Japanese literature." ...

Dr. Jeffrey Angles is a professor and advisor of Japanese in the Department of World Languages and Literatures at Western Michigan University. Angles' lifelong interest in Japan and Japanese ...

15, 2023. Suzuki and Ando won the Akutagawa Prize, a Japanese literary award for up-and-coming authors, while Iyohara won the Naoki Prize, a Japanese literary award for popular fiction.

American-born Japanese literature scholar Donald Keene (1922-2019) was 16 when he encountered kanji Chinese characters. So different from the English alphabet, the ideograms captivated him.