At the Alliance Literature Festival in Bengaluru, the winner of the Lindsley and Masao Miyoshi Translation Prize (2020-2021) ...
Have you ever wondered why Japanese students excel in academics and problem-solving? It’s not just about studying harder—it’s ...
As a child, I believed smart people read books instead of watching movies. I thought movies were just mindless screen-staring ...
When Amanda Knox was imprisoned in Capanne, Perugia in 2007 for the murder of the British student Meredith Kercher, Viktor ...
Some of the best shows on television today didn’t begin as original ideas for the screen. They started as bestselling books that already had a loyal following.
Missing for decades from the Anglophile version of its origin story was another great visual narrative tradition, of the East ...
For centuries, residents in central Japan have chronicled a mysterious natural phenomenon in winter. They see its ...
The Omoro Sōshi, a collection of some 1,500 songs written in the 16th and 17th centuries, is the oldest extant text in ...
Michelle Buteau and the cast and crew of Survival of the Thickest all collectively had a "mo'ment" (pronounced like "Mo'nique ...
A Bucknell interdisciplinary team, led by Professor Eric Faden, English — film/media studies, has uncovered and digitally ...
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Words for Spring Cleaning in Japan
As winter draws to a close, it’s time to face the clutter. If you’re anything like us, you’ve probably spent months huddled ...