Tomoka Shibasaki pushes the short story to a new level in A Hundred Years and a Day
In her new collection, A Hundred Years and a Day: 34 Stories , Tomoka Shibasaki —acclaimed author of the novel Spring Garden —offers a...
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Oct 26
Early encounters of Japanese and Western art
In Allen Weiss’s forthcoming book on Kyoto’s artistic landscape, Illusory Dwellings , he writes about the unease with which modern...
Sep 14
Manga in the English-speaking world
Recently, writer and translator Frederik L. Schodt was inducted into the Manga Publishing Hall of Fame at this year’s American Manga...
Aug 14
Why has the yen been so cheap?
Maybe you’ve heard that travel to Japan is booming . This is thanks in no small part to the advantageous exchange rate of the US dollar...
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