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 ...

the Japanese might have imagined their own circumstances under occupation. I saw a reprint of the conversation handbook in the National Diet Library. It’s a palm-sized book with 32 pages.

Haruki Murakami, the Japanese master of magical realism, has been enchanting the literary world for 45 years. Read on to discover five novels that will take you into his world of talking cats, ...

This photo shows a spread of the picture book "Kudamono" (written by Kazuko Hirayama and published by Fukuinkan Shoten Publishers Inc.), for which Bookstart Japan obtained permission from the ...

A book containing the names of some 125,000 persons of Japanese ancestry who were sent to internment camps in the United States during World War Two will be displayed across the US. On February 19 ...