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

In Japan, where many conventional bookstores have closed, a new business model sees people rent shelves in a store to sell ...

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 ...

Haruki Murakami is one of Japan’s most beloved novelists with an extensive catalogue of surreal and captivating books, including short story compilations ...

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

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 ...

A young woman’s life becomes entangled in that of a political blogger who’s on the run. Set during Liz Truss’s premiership, ...

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

Plus, an audiobook roundup that includes celebrity narrators Julia Roberts and Riley Keough, Neneh Cherry, Nicole Maines, ...