Osaka is not even Japan’s second city. But its biggest bookstore dwarfs anything in New York, Los Angeles, or, indeed, Chicago. Like all Japanese cities, Osaka is filled with the most modern, and ...

As someone who enjoys reading and discussing Japanese literature, I have been pleasantly surprised by the growing number of translated Japanese books that have come out in the U.S. in recent years.

As the largest online catalog of published Japanese content in the world, Japan Book Bank (JBB) is the best and easiest way for publishers and copyright agents to discover new Japanese books and ...

Osamu Dazai's works are enjoying a new boom of retranslations and readers 80 years after they were first published.

For years, Canadian readers and collectors had limited access to these works despite growing interest from the art community.

All weekend at the NY Art Book Fair, the International Center of Photography is hosting a pop-up reading room called “10x10,” which is focussed on Japanese photo books. Free and open to the public, ...

FEW countries have been subjected to more varied comment than Japan. Her unique art and art industries, her laborious task of national reorganization, her successful war with China and the impetus it ...

Japan continues to struggle with the triple disaster of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear power plant crisis. Hundreds of thousands of people are living in emergency shelters, while many others remain ...

Unable to afford textbooks while growing up on Japan’s northwest coast, Yoko Breckenridge would borrow them from friends and copy each chapter by hand. Breckenridge, who married an American soldier ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese hotelier who denies that a 1937 massacre by Japanese troops in the Chinese city of Nanjing ever took place has "no intention" of removing books with his revisionist views ...

The Idaho Japanese Association is set to host Japan Day this Sunday, September 21, at the Gene Harris Bandshell in Julia ...