Books of proverbs and aphorisms abound, with their sources ranging from the 17th-century French moralist Francois de La ...

This course provides an introduction to modern Japanese literature through the reading of a selection of representative texts in translation. Each week we will look at one significant work of Japanese ...

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

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 ...

These approaches emphasise the significance of translators' roles beyond the chain of translated literature production. However, literary translation studies in the Japanese context—an ...

The Japanese literary community distanced itself. Meanwhile, interested onlookers tried to make sense of it all. Why had Mishima done it? What was he hoping to achieve? Yukio Mishima was born in ...

She began to write later in life and went on to release the novella “Passover (Sugikoshi no matsuri),” which won the Akutagawa Prize, a coveted Japanese literary award, in 1986. Kometani liked the ...

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