Four newly translated Japanese texts describe how ritual samurai beheadings were supposed to take place during the Edo period ...

So if one wanted to say “I buy five books” in Japanese, for example, all one had to do was replace each English word in the sentence with a corresponding Japanese one. But that of course doesn’t ...

An increasing number of Japanese stocks are trading below book value despite corporate reforms that have attracted investor ...

The first edition of Eric Carle’s classic children's picture book “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” contains words that may shock fans of the American author: "Printed in Japan." The book by ...

Tokyo's Treasure Trove of Classical Chinese Books Tokyo’s Jimbocho district is a book lover's paradise. The area is home to more than 150 secondhand shops. And among the titles that can be found ...

However, books are no longer part of the norm for most people. More than 60 percent of Japanese do not read a single book over the course of a month, according to the “public opinion survey on ...

A book for teenage readers in Japan describing the reality of people applying for refugee status and migrants living in the ...

Angles won the prize—comparable to America's Pulitzer Prize—for his book of Japanese-language poetry "Watashi no hizukehenkōsen" ("My International Date Line"), which was published by Shichōsha in ...

Over the past few months, I have been fixated with books about books, readers, librarians, bookshops, or the publishing ...

For L.G.B.T.Q. people in Japan, to live openly is a radical act. Figuring out who they are can be an isolating struggle. We spoke with eight Japanese about how they discovered their identities. But ...

By Elisabeth Egan Aaron Robertson’s grandparents had a farm in Promise Land, Tenn. In a new book, he explores the history and meaning of such utopian communities for African Americans.

TOKYO -- Some 60% of Japanese people do not read even one book in a given month, the first time that has been true for a majority of the population, according to a fiscal 2023 survey by the Agency ...