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 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 ...
Uketsu appeared in person - though fully masked as usual - at the Billboard Japan Book Charts awards ceremony held on Dec. 16 ...
Three new books delve into how Japanese politicians, military officers, and academics navigated the tumultuous transformations of the interwar period: their country’s rapid modernization, the ...
The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games may be coming to close today, but if you’d like to bask in the rich history and culture of Japan a while longer, here are five books to check out. There are many excellent ...
This playful, fast-paced manga is one of the top-selling series of all time. Tatsuya Endo’s story is about a top-secret spy who assembles a fake family as a part of a covert mission, unaware that his ...
THE MAKIOKA SISTERS (530 pp.)−Junichiro Tanlzaki−Knopf ($4.95). In any land, an unmarried girl approaching 30 is apt to get an attack of the will-I’s; Will I, oh will I ever find a husband? In Japan, ...