books

On the Hunt for High Cuisine: New Book Explores Japan’s Wild Game SceneCULTURE | Aug 28, 2024

Questions of Abduction: North Korea and the Disappearance of a Japanese Nuclear Scientist INSIGHT | Aug 14, 2024

Meet “Naruse,” the Quirky Go-Getter Schoolgirl Who Is Out to Conquer the WorldCULTURE | Aug 13, 2024

“Burning the Ark”: What’s Really True? INSIGHT | Aug 6, 2024

Exploring Jinbōchō’s Secondhand BookstoresTRAVEL | Jun 18, 2024

Jinbōchō Through the Years: The Story of Tokyo’s Secondhand Book District CULTURE | Jun 11, 2024

A Life in Mystery: The Literary World of Japanese Author Yuzuki YūkoCULTURE | Jun 7, 2024

“Wahon”: The History of the Japanese BookCULTURE | May 22, 2024

Coffee Culture, Japan Style: Tracing the History of Japanese Porcelain ExportsCULTURE | May 2, 2024

In Search of “Living Fossils”: Meet the Cockroach Hunter INSIGHT | Apr 26, 2024

“Tokyo Sympathy Tower”: Building a New BabelINSIGHT | Apr 18, 2024

“Face Your True Feelings”: Kanehara Hitomi’s “Mothers”INSIGHT | Mar 29, 2024

Ōkuma Shigenobu: The “Fourth Man” of Japan’s ModernizationJAPAN LIFE | Feb 14, 2024

“Murasaki Shikibu and Fujiwara no Michinaga”: Literature and Power in the Heian CourtINSIGHT | Feb 9, 2024

“The Boy and the Dog” Translator Alison Watts Awarded the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Translation PrizeCULTURE | Feb 8, 2024

Kuroyanagi Tetsuko Pens Sequel to World Record “Totto-chan” MemoirCULTURE | Jan 5, 2024

Japan’s Prizewinning Books of 2023INSIGHT | Dec 29, 2023

Sixty Years of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of JapanCULTURE | Dec 28, 2023