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 ...

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 ...

A prizewinning Japanese author who lost her home in the recent wildfires in Los Angeles expressed dismay that the life she ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two Japanese authors in Sydney have recently both published a fictional novel. Both books are set in Northern Australia and feature Japanese pearl divers there. In 2016, Mina Matsudaira ...

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.