Since last summer, Bookstart Japan, a nonprofit group that promotes activities to give picture books to parents and children ...

Japan's popular book series "Before the Coffee Gets Cold" began as a play before a publisher asked author Toshikazu Kawaguchi ...

In Japan, there is a little-known network of "white post" pornography drop boxes that were installed on streets decades ago to protect young people from exposure to explicit material not intended for ...

This new book by Hongō Kazuto covers all the major, classical developments you might expect to find in a conventional history of religion in Japan, from the age of myth in the ancient texts to ...

“In Japan, people under the age of 40 really don ... “Young people have reached out and said that my books are the first novels they’ve ever read.” The book is certainly an enjoyably ...

Author Lionel Barber joins Morning Joe to discuss his new book 'Gambling Man: The Secret Story of the World's Greatest ...

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Japan's annual "book week" period is underway, running for two weeks until Nov. 9. We hope to take this opportunity to reflect on the richness that books can bring to our lives. Many people are ...

The 172nd Akutagawa literary prize was awarded Wednesday to authors Jose Ando and Yui Suzuki, while Shin Iyohara took home the Naoki Prize. The Akutagawa Prize, given to up-and-coming writers for ...

Iran-born actress Sahel Rosa recently published two books to raise awareness among Japanese of the realities facing child ...