Last week's No. 1, the latest volume of the Sunday GX manga adaptation of Kusuriya no Hitorigoto (The Apothecary Diaries), ...
In a world obsessed with self-improvement, Japan's gentle novels ask nothing of you at all. What the global comfort-book boom ...
Eiko Kadono, the 91-year-old author behind Japan’s most famous and beloved children's fantasy books, has a little trouble ...
Blue Lock Vol. 39 follows at No. 2.
Japanese influencer Mayo Japan shared a practical and accessible guide to learning the Japanese language during her ...
The value of books as a source of knowledge and information is beyond dispute. This is likely why book reviews are recognized ...
Osaka is not even Japan’s second city. But its biggest bookstore dwarfs anything in New York, Los Angeles, or, indeed, Chicago. Like all Japanese cities, Osaka is filled with the most modern, and ...
As someone who enjoys reading and discussing Japanese literature, I have been pleasantly surprised by the growing number of translated Japanese books that have come out in the U.S. in recent years.
Three new books delve into how Japanese politicians, military officers, and academics navigated the tumultuous transformations of the interwar period: their country’s rapid modernization, the ...