Books & Literature
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Prestigious Japanese Literature Prize Names Toriyama, Hatakeyama as Winners
This year’s winners of the Akutagawa Prize were announced Wednesday in Tokyo. Makoto Toriyama and...
January 14, 2026
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Picture Book on Osechi New Year Dishes Enjoying Strong Sales; English Version Introduces Dishes to Foreigners
A picture book depicting osechi traditional Japanese New Year dishes has been selling well thanks...
December 18, 2025
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Yoko Tawada Becomes 1st Japanese to Receive Nelly Sachs Prize, Prestigious German Award for Person of Literature
DORTMUND, Germany — Berlin-based writer Yoko Tawada was awarded the Nelly Sachs Prize, a biennial...
December 16, 2025
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Haruki Murakami, His Translator Win Award for Japanese Literature Published in Italy
Haruki Murakami described translation as an ultimate close reading during an award ceremony at th...
October 10, 2025
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Otani’s ‘Night of Baba Yaga’ Wins Dagger Award in London; Violent Novel Hailed for Exceptional Literary Quality
LONDON — “I believe you all love blood, murder, crime and violence as much as I do — in fiction, ...
July 5, 2025
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Tokyo Exhibition of English Literature Scholar, Critic Kenichi Yoshida to Be Held in June; Featuring Signed Books, Rare Shikishi
An exhibition featuring works and translations by Kenichi Yoshida (1912–77), a renowned Japanese ...
May 20, 2025
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Libraries Urged to Buy Books at Full List Price; Move Aimed at Buoying Independent Bookstores
Four publishing industry groups have decided to urge public libraries and government agencies to ...
April 25, 2025
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Japanese Novelist Asako Yuzuki Says She Wrote Her Novel ‘Butter’ in Reaction to Male-Centered Media; Finds Warm Embrace for Her Novel in U.K.
Japanese writer Asako Yuzuki is getting attention abroad for her novel “Butter,” which touches on...
February 15, 2025
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Bound to Please / In “Miyabaru 198,” a Hamlet with Centuries of History Faces an Unpeopled Future
The Yomiuri Shimbun‘Miyabaru 198’ By Carl Stimson By Alex Breeden / Japan News Staff Wri...
January 2, 2025
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To Get Published in Japan, Write Nonfiction
If you are a foreign writer in Japan and hope to get published, your best bet is to go the nonfic...
January 2, 2025
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Bound to Please / How to Eat Well, Stay Sane and Enjoy Life with Help from Japan
In Japan, people eat all manner of things fried. There’s fried chicken (karaage), fried pork (ton...
December 1, 2024
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Picture Book About Calf to Be Eaten Soon Becomes Popular; Song to Accompany Book Released
A picture book depicting a calf that has accepted its fate of being eaten and is going to visit i...
November 3, 2024
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Tohan Wants to Keep People in Contact with Paper Books; Distributor Catering to Japan’s Small Local Stores
The efforts of major book wholesaler and distributor Tohan Corp. to support the opening of small ...
October 20, 2024
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Book Wholesaler Begins Dealing With Smaller Shops; Japan’s Tohan Introduces New Delivery System
Tohan Corp., one of Japan’s two major book wholesalers, has begun selling books to smaller bookst...
October 20, 2024
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European Literary Festival Held Across Tokyo; Poets, Novelists, Translators to Meet The Public
Thirteen-year-old Jamie, protagonist of the Booker Prize-nominated novel “How to Build a Boat,” t...
October 11, 2024
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