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 ...

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 ...

Julie Otsuka’s debut novel When the Emperor was Divine tells the story of a Japanese American family forced to live in an internment camp during World War II. In five concise chapters, Otsuka presents ...

The Texts and Contexts: Teaching Japan through Children’s Literature online curriculum is a collection of teacher-developed, standards-based, cross-curricular K-6 lessons. The collection is designed ...

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

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".