The Japanese literary world is abuzz with the release of the latest work by Uketsu, the country’s best-selling writer. Known ...

(This is Part 23 of the "Learning from Japanese picture books" series, which introduces recommended Japanese picture books, ...

The Authors Guild, a US body representing writers, knows the score and has set up an online portal for members to certify that their books “emanated from the human intellect” and not from ...

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

Interest in Japanese authors is nothing new – Haruki Murakami and Banana Yoshimoto have been cult writers here since the 1990s – but these days it’s become an obsession, largely due to the runaway ...

Portgas D. Ace is Luffy’s beloved brother in One Piece. His role in the story remains the most iconic to date, and now, this ...

Prizewinning Japanese author Fumiko Kometani gives an interview ... every painting, every book, every photo of my late father, every scrap that proves she has lived her life," said Greenfeld ...

“She’s lost her entire life, every painting, every book, every photo of my late father, every scrap that proves she has lived her life,” said Greenfeld, who also lost his home in the fires. Photo ...

A prizewinning Japanese author who lost her home in the recent wildfires in Los Angeles expressed dismay ... "She's lost her entire life, every painting, every book, every photo of my late father, ...

Books of proverbs and aphorisms abound, with their sources ranging from the 17th-century French moralist Francois de La Rochefoucauld to the Japanese author Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927 ...

Novelist Asako Yuzuki took inspiration from Kijima’s case to create a fictional narrative for her novel Butter. It’s a story ...

It’s fiction day with a richly layered coming-of-age story set in Iowa farm country in the months before the attack on Pearl ...