Japan's popular book series "Before the Coffee Gets Cold" began as a play before a publisher asked author Toshikazu Kawaguchi ...

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

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 ...

The MA program in Japanese is designed to provide advanced-level training in Japanese language, literature and civilization, with the aim of preparing students for both Japan-related professional ...

Each semester, we offer two seminars in Japanese literature across different historical periods that are centered around the intensive study of particular texts, genres, and theories. See our graduate ...

Our Japanese studies program allows you to specialize in film, literature, video games, or pop culture while advancing your language skills and learning more about current events. You will graduate ...

The arched entrance of the Odawara Literature Museum's main building is seen in Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture, on June 20, ...

American-born Japanese literature scholar Donald Keene (1922-2019) was 16 when he encountered kanji Chinese characters. So different from the English alphabet, the ideograms captivated him.

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".