Books & Literature
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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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Old Friend Breathes New Life into KyoAni Arson Victim’s Picture Book; Japan’s Veteran Voice Actors, Animators Create Anime Film
Yoshiji Kigami, who was 61 when he died in the blaze at the studio of Kyoto Animation Co., or Kyo...
April 17, 2024
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Japan’s Economy Ministry Project Team Strives to Make Bookstores into Cultural Meeting Points in Local Communities
The Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry established on March 5 a project team under the direct c...
March 14, 2024
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Beloved Bookstore Lives on Under New Management; A Fixture of Tokyo’s Literary Asagaya Neighborhood
The last remaining bookstore in front of JR Asagaya Station in Suginami Ward, Tokyo — a neighborh...
March 6, 2024
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Haruki Murakami Unveils His New Short Story at a Tokyo Literary Event
TOKYO (AP) — Only 1,100 lucky audience members were there to hear the yet-to-be published short s...
March 2, 2024
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EU Works to Find More Readers for Its New Fiction in Japan; Translators of Lesser-known Languages Face Tough Market
The European Union has launched a new campaign to promote literature from the bloc among booklovers ...
February 7, 2024
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Tetsuko Kuroyanagi’s Childhood Memoir Sets Guinness World Record for Most Published Autobiography
Actor Tetsuko Kuroyanagi’s memoir “Madogiwa no Totto-chan” (Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Windo...
December 18, 2023
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Hand Bookbinding Becoming Big, Whether Done by Pros or DIY
An increasing number of people are breathing new life into old and damaged books, either by calling ...
December 11, 2023
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Acclaimed Writer Shogo Imamura Opens Bookstore in Saga, Repaying Prefecture that Got Him Started
Award-winning novelist Shogo Imamura has opened a bookstore at JR Saga Station, as he tries to rever...
December 7, 2023
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Japan’s Waseda Univ. Awards 2 Writers Who ‘Crossed Border’ between Genres, Languages
Waseda University announced that this year’s Tsubouchi Shoyo Award went to writer Natsuki Ikezawa, w...
November 26, 2023
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