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

which introduces recommended Japanese picture books, along with related terms and culture that foreigners living in Japan may find useful. Most titles can be found in bookstores or libraries ...

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 ...

TOKYO -- If you were raising children overseas, what kind of picture books would you want for them? Since last summer, Bookstart Japan, a nonprofit group that promotes activities to give picture ...

In September last year, the book won the Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister Award at the Japan Book Design Awards, which recognise books with beautiful design and bookbinding.