Culture
Books & Literature
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3 unpublished Shusaku Endo plays discovered
Manuscripts of three unpublished plays by novelist and playwright Shusaku Endo (1923-1996) were rece...
January 4, 2022
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Haiku magazine Hototogisu celebrates 1,500th issue
Haiku magazine Hototogisu, which means cuckoo bird, celebrated its 1,500th installment with the rele...
December 23, 2021
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How a Fukushima-born bookworm became a U.S. senator
As a boy, this reviewer used to climb a green, leafy tree in Alabama to spend blissful hours sitting...
December 21, 2021
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New Japanese translation of Peter Rabbit set to hit shelves in March
A new Japanese version of the beloved Peter Rabbit series will be translated by Mieko Kawakami, 45, ...
December 20, 2021
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The Inside Story: Entrepreneur, activist works to bring awareness to racial issues in Japan
Japanese society doesn’t hesitate to judge a book by its cover, but when it comes to Leila Odagaki, ...
December 5, 2021
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Urge to apologize, understand leads author deep into roots
It’s a story many children of immigrants can relate to: Just trying to fit in, but constantly being ...
November 30, 2021
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Hiroshima bomb story by Akira Kurosawa’s screenwriter published in English
OSAKA — A Japanese novel centered on the atomic bombing of Hiroshima was published this autumn in En...
November 27, 2021
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Isaacson profiles the brilliant minds behind CRISPR gene editing
A bacterium is such a simple organism that its single cell doesn’t even have a nucleus to tidily con...
November 9, 2021
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Li on love and the lives of sexual minorities / Akutagawa Prize winner explores gender themes
Novelist Li Kotomi doesn’t believe in boundaries. National boundaries, linguistic boundaries, gender...
September 23, 2021
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Book bank promotes local titles overseas
A bilingual website cataloging the copyright and other information of Japanese books has been launch...
August 17, 2021
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Novel unearths drama in the silent spaces of relationships
One of the most expressive yet frustratingly uncommunicative words in any relationship, whether it b...
June 2, 2021
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What are love and hope when viewed through artificial eyes?
“Hope,” according to American poet Emily Dickinson, “is the thing with feathers / That perches in th...
May 21, 2021
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Tokyo library director rescued books during WWII
It’s not widely known that during World War II, the director of the Tokyo Metropolitan Hibiya Librar...
April 29, 2021
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AI feels for humans in Ishiguro’s new novel
Japanese-born British writer Kazuo Ishiguro’s latest novel “Klara and the Sun” was released on March...
March 25, 2021
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Philosopher Sandel questions societal goal of a meritocracy
Given the chaos in the United States over the past few years, many people have been left scratching ...
March 24, 2021
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