(This is Part 23 of the "Learning from Japanese picture books" series, which introduces recommended Japanese picture books, ...

it would be strange to go a day without reading anything. However, books are no longer part of the norm for most people. More than 60 percent of Japanese do not read a single book over the ...

Japan's annual "book week" period is underway ... options including short videos and online games. By contrast, reading requires turning pages, following lines of text, and pondering the deeper ...

If you were raising children overseas, what kind of picture books would you want for them?Since last summer, Bookstart Japan, a nonprofit gro･･･ ...

Libraries in contemporary Japanese and Korean fiction are evolving into spaces where reading offers solace, connection, and ...

Chinese books have been brought to Japan ever since. Many of the volumes now sold in Jimbocho cannot be found back in China. Past and present of Chinese literature ...

This new book by ... arose in Japan, represented by the Pure Land sects founded by Hōnen (Jōdoshū) and Shinran (Jōdoshinshū) and Nichiren’s salvific sect, based on his reading of the ...

This photo shows a spread of the picture book "Kudamono" (written by Kazuko Hirayama and published by Fukuinkan Shoten Publishers Inc.), for which Bookstart Japan obtained permission from the ...