A century ago, Edogawa Ranpo invented the Japanese detective novel. This pioneer of ero-guro-nansensu, a delicious blend of ...

On Thursday, March 20, the Modern Languages and Literatures Department at Grand Valley State University held its annual ...

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All are beloved fictional baseball characters found through the decades within Japanese comic books, the artform now known ...

Saou Ichikawa’s award-winning novel, “Hunchback,” is narrated by an heiress with a rare genetic disorder and a brilliant, ...

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According to the Japan Book Design Awards ... some works from the Manyoshu compilation of classic waka poems into the modern Nara dialect. The first print run was just 500 copies.

The order books on the R35-generation Nissan GT-R have officially closed in Japan. With no replacement in sight and Nissan's shaky financials, this might be it for the sports car also known as ...

Contemporary Japan has been characterised as a "post-growth society". It faces challenges such as a rapidly ageing population, ongoing rural decline, far-reaching gender inequality, and serious ...

Three years is all it took for Jose Ando to go from writing his first pages of fiction to winning the most prestigious literary prize in Japan. “I started writing novels one year before my debut ...