Japan's popular book series "Before the Coffee Gets Cold" began as a play before a publisher asked author Toshikazu Kawaguchi to adapt it into a novel, which went on to become an international success ...

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 ...

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 ...

15, 2023. Suzuki and Ando won the Akutagawa Prize, a Japanese literary award for up-and-coming authors, while Iyohara won the Naoki Prize, a Japanese literary award for popular fiction.

The 172nd Akutagawa literary prize was awarded Wednesday to ... The story is told from the point of view of Momo, a Japanese and Polynesian nonbinary person whose childhood friend is a contestant ...

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 ...

The U.S. Geological Survey put the quake’s preliminary magnitude at 6.8. The Japan Meteorological Agency said it had an intensity of lower 5 on the Japanese scale of 0 to 7. The quake began at ...

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

With international cinema becoming more and more accessible through streaming platforms, Japanese films have garnered global recognition for their cultural richness and refreshing storytelling ...

From organising key search terms to checking citations, this video offers simple, practical tips to crafting a literature review that will lay a sound foundation for your academic paper Tips for ...

T here’s a conservative turn happening in literary studies, although it hasn’t received much public attention. Those involved certainly haven’t banded together under a banner. In literature ...