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

Nakayoku -- This is an adverb that describing getting along well. For example, it is used as "boku wa sono otokonoko to nakayoku natta" (I made friends with that boy). In the picture book, the word ...

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Yuval Zohar, author of "Towards a Nude Architecture," relaxes in Tengunoyu, one of the baths at Kita Onsen hot spring in Tochigi prefecture, north of Tokyo. (All photos and images courtesy of Yuval ...

However, books are no longer part of the norm for most ... with questionnaires mailed to people 16 and older throughout Japan. Of 6,000 recipients, 3,559 responded. According to the survey ...

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 ...

Tsutaya Books, Japan’s largest bookstore chain, is famously known as “one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores” and this first South-East Asia outpost store does not fail to impress ...