(This is Part 18 of the "Learning from Japanese picture books" series, which introduces recommended Japanese picture books, ...

The discovery at UCL of three books owned by Oscar Wilde, the acclaimed author and playwright, has provided an invaluable ...

Although the Japanese river otter is not in paintings, the 1824 book Buko Sanbutsu Shi (List of Animals and Plants Found in ...

Fate/Zero‘s story takes place around ten years after the events of Fate/stay night and follows the Fourth Holy Grail War, a ...

The cult writer’s autobiographical novel follows its unapologetic groupie narrator as she romps through Yokohama’s ...

Naoki Hyakuta, founder of the Conservative Party of Japan, also angered many when he proposed uterus removal for women at the ...

Grant Ujifusa helped persuade President Ronald Reagan to support reparations for Japanese Americans interned at camps like ...

An art deco building in the Japanese capital that has been serving as the country's first textbook library houses materials ...

Set My Heart on Fire” follows a young woman through a world of drugs, music and highly conditional relationships.

Arthur Polacheck was 17 years old and stationed in Okinawa, an island of Japan, as a radio operator for the United States.

Representatives of the Fuji Five Lakes region in Japan joined Laguna Beach city officials in a ceremony formalizing their ...