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 ...

Angles' lifelong interest in Japan and Japanese literature began when he went to southwestern Japan as a 15-year-old exchange student. Since then he has gone to Japan multiple times, spending many ...

A Western style building constructed near Sagami Bay in this east Japan city in 1937 was a vacation home of a Meiji period ...

A U.S. researcher of Japanese literature has published two books of “waka” poems composed by the emperor and empress of the ...

In this 5-lesson plan unit, students will be introduced to the culture of Japan through its food, clothing, art, entertainment, and literature with a literary focus on Sei Shonagon's Pillow Book, the ...

This paper surveys the recent literature that empirically examines foreign direct investment (FDI) in Japan. This paper focuses on the quantitative evidence on the following questions: 1) Did FDI in ...

Japanese-born British author Kazuo Ishiguro is being celebrated around the world for winning this year's Nobel Prize in Literature. The Swedish Academy cited his "novels of great emotional force".