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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Prizewinning Japanese author Fumiko Kometani gives an interview in Los Angeles on Jan. 12, 2025. (Kyodo) LOS ANGELES (Kyodo) -- A prizewinning Japanese author who lost her home in the recent ...

The publisher’s Japanese Classics series includes famous works by authors such as Haruki Murakami, and comes with cover illustrations by Yuko Shimizu inspired by classic Japanese artworks All eyes are ...

He’ll be remembered and studied for hundreds of years. He almost single-handedly put modern Japanese literature on the world map. If Murakami doesn’t win the Nobel Prize for Literature before ...

Amid regional tension over territorial disputes, acclaimed Japanese author Haruki Murakami called on politicians Friday to stop playing the nationalism card, likening the tactics to “bad liquor” that ...

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.

Japan's popular book series "Before the Coffee Gets Cold" began as a play before a publisher asked author Toshikazu Kawaguchi ...