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

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This spring semester, the University introduced 186 new undergraduate courses, many of which delve deeply into highly-specialized subjects, from observational astronomy to African mythology to ...

Sarah Chihaya’s unconventional memoir charts her troubled relationship with the literature that formed her.

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He wears a black bodysuit and a white mask, speaks in an electronically altered squeaky voice and makes creepiness his ...

In “Bibliophobia,” Sarah Chihaya combines criticism and memoir to write about reading’s role in a life’s highs and lows ...

Dating key tectonic events in Japan's geological history has long been often challenging due to poor microfossil preservation ...

He’ll be remembered and studied for hundreds of years. He almost single-handedly put modern Japanese literature on the world map. If Murakami doesn’t win the Nobel Prize for Literature before ...

Tokyo, Japan - January 15, 2025 (From L) Novelists Shin Iyohara, Yui Suzuki and Jose Ando pose with their award-winning books in Tokyo on Jan. 15, 2023. Suzuki and Ando won the Akutagawa Prize ...

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