Writer Akiko Aoki translates Chinese book, hopes that it improves ties
There is always a humane story to life when dispute and controversies surround a situation. So the humane angle to the Senkaku Islands dispute is the attempt of Japanese writer Akiko Aoki to bridge the...
View ArticleEarly short story by celebrated author Kobo Abe discovered in Sapporo
A Japanese publishing house revealed this week that an until-now undiscovered manuscript by celebrated, award-winning author Kobo Abe was found at his brother’s home in Sapporo. Shinchosha Publishing...
View ArticleJapan PEN partners with Google for authors’ rights, library project
One of the country’s top writers’ associations, Japan PEN, and the internet giant, Google, have entered into a strategic partnership that is aimed at ensuring a tightened protection of copyrighted...
View ArticleShort story by Nobel Prize-winning Yasunari Kawabata published in print for...
A short story by celebrated novelist Yasunari Kawabata has been published for the first time in the literary magazine Shincho. The story entitled “Hoshi o Nusunda Chichi” (The father who stole a star)...
View ArticleNew Haruki Murakami novel to be published in April
He has fans around the globe and his novels have been translated into numerous languages, and now readers are only two months away from his latest work. Well, readers in Japan that is. Haruki...
View ArticleLost short story confirmed as Nobel Prize-winning Yasunari Kawabata’s
Researchers have confirmed that a previously unknown short story printed in a Fukuoka newspaper in 1927 was in fact written by Yasunari Kawabata, Japan’s first Nobel Prize-winning author. While known...
View ArticleTokyo hosts its first International Literary Festival
The first Tokyo International Literary Festival took place in eight venues across the city on March 1–3. The festival brought together leading novelists, poets, editors, and translators, aiming to...
View ArticleBritish national falls in love with tsunami-hit town, starts volunteer work...
Caroline Pover, a British writer and publisher who has lived in Japan since 1996, has been so taken by the idyllic, seaside landscape of Ohara, Miyagi Prefecture that she is now spending a big slice of...
View ArticleTruman’s grandson to start book project on Japanese A-bomb survivors
As the World War II U.S. atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki are quite inseparable from their legacies, Clifton Truman Daniel – President Harry Truman’s grandson – said on Thursday that he...
View ArticleHaruki Murakami makes first public appearance in 18 years, talks about latest...
Best-selling author Haruki Murakami, in a very rare public appearance, talked about his new book “Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and the Year of His Pilgrimage” at a special event at Kyoto University on...
View ArticleJapanese author fights against denial of Japan’s wartime aggression in Hong Kong
Yukio Wani, author and supporter of efforts to continue to make known the truths about Japan’s aggression during World War II, has spent more than 10 years talking and interacting with Hong Kong...
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