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 ...

The gloom and potential for rain from an overcast day did little to stop families from bringing their children to the ...

Missing for decades from the Anglophile version of its origin story was another great visual narrative tradition, of the East ...

Japanese booksellers struggled to keep The ... This inspired Sharpe to re-read the book himself. "Reading the story at that time was a very different experience than the several times I have ...

book-reading and other events to mark the opening of the Waseda International House of Literature known as the Haruki Murakami Library. In a captivating session where two of Japan’s most ...

The Cultural Affairs Agency has released the results of the fiscal 2023 public opinion survey on the Japanese language ... may also have impacted it. Reading books is not only a way to gain ...

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 ...