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Shortlist Announced for New Japanese to English Translation PrizeCULTURE | Dec 15, 2023

Fifty Years of “Japan Sinks”: The Bestselling Disaster Novel that Defined an Era INSIGHT | Nov 20, 2023

Too Popular for Its Own Good? New Book Explores Kyoto’s Economic Fate CULTURE | Nov 11, 2023

Survey Finds Half of Children in Japan Do No Reading on WeekdaysJAPAN LIFE | Nov 8, 2023

“Son of Paris”: Memoir Looks at the Life of World-Famous Designer Takada KenzōCULTURE | Sep 8, 2023

Evening Star: Nagira Yū Strikes a Chord with Latest Award-Winning NovelCULTURE | Sep 1, 2023

Watanabe Tsuneo: A New Book Explores a Giant of Journalism and PoliticsINSIGHT | Aug 18, 2023

“Writing Fiction in the Time of Pandemic and War”: Murakami Haruki Discusses His New Novel at WellesleyINSIGHT | Aug 10, 2023

The Nuclear Age is Not Over: Ōe Kenzaburō's “Hiroshima Notes”JAPAN LIFE | Aug 4, 2023

A Fresh Look at a Legendary Spy: New Japanese Translation of Richard Sorge’s Reports from TokyoINSIGHT | Jul 21, 2023

Kikuchi Kan: Founder of the Akutagawa and Naoki PrizesINSIGHT | Jul 14, 2023

“How Do You Live?”: The Classic Novel that Inspired Miyazaki HayaoJAPAN LIFE | Jul 13, 2023

Abe Shinzō in His Own Words: A Memoir of Japan’s Longest-Serving Prime Minister INSIGHT | Jul 7, 2023

Sakamoto Ryūichi Recounts the Birth of His MusicINSIGHT | Jun 19, 2023

“The City and Its Uncertain Walls”: Murakami Haruki’s Latest Novel Returns to Setting of Early StoryINSIGHT | May 18, 2023

“Sisters in Yellow”: Kawakami Mieko’s Noir Novel of Family and Desperate ActsINSIGHT | May 12, 2023

Deep Thoughts from a Bean-Jam-Bun Hero: Essays from Anpanman Creator Yanase TakashiCULTURE | May 5, 2023

“Islands of the Sun” Completes Tawada Yōko’s Trilogy Exploring Questions of Belonging and National Identity CULTURE | Apr 21, 2023