TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Rieko Nakagawa, author of the long-selling picture book series featuring twin mice "Guri and Gura," has died ...

(This is Part 16 of "Learning from Japanese picture books" series, which introduces recommended Japanese picture books, along ...

The bestselling author, Netflix hitmaker and ’queen of clean’ Marie Kondo has jumped to Bonnier Books UK’s wellbeing imprint ...

Seattle Samurai" is a collection of Sam Goto's "Seattle Tomodachi" cartoons with extensive commentary provided by his ...

A Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry project team has been tasked to look into revitalising bookstores. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Then the six years that followed saw what can be described as a spectacular crash, to the degree that presently nearly two out of three Japanese basically said they don't read books at all. Of course, ...

Dozens of Chinese who have settled in Japan say they are the target of threatening phone calls and messages, while families they left behind are frequently visited by police making thinly veiled ...

Since Japan sees the sun rise 16 hours before California, we fly backwards in time. Twenty-five hours in transit, leaving ...

Nihon Hidankyo uses the testimony of those who survived the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings to campaign for the abolition of ...

Her alto timbre, for which she was teased as a child, and radiant laughter shaped how millions experienced the blue robot in ...

The historic port city of Niigata in northwest Japan is one of the few remaining geisha strongholds outside of Kyoto. Known ...

has been described as the "Stephen King of Japan"). The book also opened the door for a collaboration with his longtime ...