Shortly after the end of the devastating war, a book on English conversation came out and became the first postwar best-seller ... about the history of the U.S.-led occupation of Japan ...

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

Six months after publication Wheat and Soldiers had become Japan’s most spectacular best-seller (almost 5,000,000 copies). Contact us at [email protected] ...

China is known as the country that invented paper and, fittingly, it has a rich history of books. Japan has had a relationship with China since at least the seventh century, when it started ...

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