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

But Murakami’s exploration sets the stage for a broader cultural conversation in contemporary Japanese and Korean literature, in which books and libraries increasingly symbolise intimate spaces for ...

It gets increasingly difficult in the darkest days of winter to find comfort on any level: physically, mentally, ...

The Japan Cultural Days event at the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (Ithra) has experienced an exceptional turnout, ...

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 ...

The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands promotes Dutch literature in Japan. We do this by joining the European Literature Festival. As part of this festival we invite writers, publishers, ...

Whether it's a haunting mystery, an epic fantasy, or a moving contemporary drama, these books are destined to leave a mark.

This photo shows a spread of the picture book "Kudamono" (written by Kazuko Hirayama and published by Fukuinkan Shoten Publishers Inc.), for which Bookstart Japan obtained permission from the ...

She was awarded for books, including “The Vegetarian” and “Human Acts," that explore the pain of being human and the scars of Korea's turbulent history. Nobel literature committee member ...

Opinion: What kind of picture books are needed in Japan's growing multicultural society?