Books & Literature
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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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‘Yatagarasu’ Fantasy Series Novelist Chisato Abe Reflects on Writing Process; Anime Adaptation Finds Popularity
Chisato Abe, the author of the famous“Yatagarasu” (Yatagarasu: the legendary birds) fantasy novel...
August 16, 2024
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Bound to Please / Scholar Reveals Real-Life Characters Behind the Fiction of ‘Shogun’
“We’ve endured pestilence, known starvation, chewed the calfskin that covers the ropes. We should...
July 18, 2024
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Award-Winning Author Mina Miyajima Aims to ‘Take Over the World’
Award-winning author Mina Miyajima is “taking over” Japan from Otsu, where she lives and where her ...
June 28, 2024
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Prize-Winning Novelist Rie Qudan Finds AI Works Lacking in Human Originality; Latest Novel That Used AI, ‘Tokyo-to Dojo-to,’ Touches on Tech, Japanese Culture
Novelist Rie Qudan, who used AI to help her write the novel “Tokyo-to Dojo-to” (“Sympathy Tower T...
June 17, 2024
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AI Works Still Need A Human Touch, Says Prize-winning Novelist; ‘Sympathy Tower Tokyo’ Weaves in Lines from ChatGPT
Novelist Rie Qudan sparked controversy in January when she won the Akutagawa Prize, one of Japan’...
June 16, 2024
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Kotaro Isaka’s Thriller ‘The Mantis’ Shortlisted for CWA Daggers; Author Previously Nominated for ‘Bullet Train’
Kotaro Isaka’s novel “Ax” (“The Mantis”) has been shortlisted for the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Aw...
May 13, 2024
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Precious Literary Manuscript Found in Antique Wooden Box; Written Kamakura-Period Poet Teika in His Own Hand
KYOTO — When Japan’s first Imperial anthology of waka poems was compiled in the Heian period (794...
April 22, 2024
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