Books & Literature
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Tohan Wants to Keep People in Contact with Paper Books; Distributor Catering to Japan’s Small Local Stores
The efforts of major book wholesaler and distributor Tohan Corp. to support the opening of small ...
October 20, 2024
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Book Wholesaler Begins Dealing With Smaller Shops; Japan’s Tohan Introduces New Delivery System
Tohan Corp., one of Japan’s two major book wholesalers, has begun selling books to smaller bookst...
October 20, 2024
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European Literary Festival Held Across Tokyo; Poets, Novelists, Translators to Meet The Public
Thirteen-year-old Jamie, protagonist of the Booker Prize-nominated novel “How to Build a Boat,” t...
October 11, 2024
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‘Yatagarasu’ Fantasy Series Novelist Chisato Abe Reflects on Writing Process; Anime Adaptation Finds Popularity
Chisato Abe, the author of the famous“Yatagarasu” (Yatagarasu: the legendary birds) fantasy novel...
August 16, 2024
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Bound to Please / Scholar Reveals Real-Life Characters Behind the Fiction of ‘Shogun’
“We’ve endured pestilence, known starvation, chewed the calfskin that covers the ropes. We should...
July 18, 2024
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Award-Winning Author Mina Miyajima Aims to ‘Take Over the World’
Award-winning author Mina Miyajima is “taking over” Japan from Otsu, where she lives and where her ...
June 28, 2024
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Prize-Winning Novelist Rie Qudan Finds AI Works Lacking in Human Originality; Latest Novel That Used AI, ‘Tokyo-to Dojo-to,’ Touches on Tech, Japanese Culture
Novelist Rie Qudan, who used AI to help her write the novel “Tokyo-to Dojo-to” (“Sympathy Tower T...
June 17, 2024
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AI Works Still Need A Human Touch, Says Prize-winning Novelist; ‘Sympathy Tower Tokyo’ Weaves in Lines from ChatGPT
Novelist Rie Qudan sparked controversy in January when she won the Akutagawa Prize, one of Japan’...
June 16, 2024
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Kotaro Isaka’s Thriller ‘The Mantis’ Shortlisted for CWA Daggers; Author Previously Nominated for ‘Bullet Train’
Kotaro Isaka’s novel “Ax” (“The Mantis”) has been shortlisted for the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Aw...
May 13, 2024
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Precious Literary Manuscript Found in Antique Wooden Box; Written Kamakura-Period Poet Teika in His Own Hand
KYOTO — When Japan’s first Imperial anthology of waka poems was compiled in the Heian period (794...
April 22, 2024
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Old Friend Breathes New Life into KyoAni Arson Victim’s Picture Book; Japan’s Veteran Voice Actors, Animators Create Anime Film
Yoshiji Kigami, who was 61 when he died in the blaze at the studio of Kyoto Animation Co., or Kyo...
April 17, 2024
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Japan’s Economy Ministry Project Team Strives to Make Bookstores into Cultural Meeting Points in Local Communities
The Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry established on March 5 a project team under the direct c...
March 14, 2024
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Beloved Bookstore Lives on Under New Management; A Fixture of Tokyo’s Literary Asagaya Neighborhood
The last remaining bookstore in front of JR Asagaya Station in Suginami Ward, Tokyo — a neighborh...
March 6, 2024
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Haruki Murakami Unveils His New Short Story at a Tokyo Literary Event
TOKYO (AP) — Only 1,100 lucky audience members were there to hear the yet-to-be published short s...
March 2, 2024
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EU Works to Find More Readers for Its New Fiction in Japan; Translators of Lesser-known Languages Face Tough Market
The European Union has launched a new campaign to promote literature from the bloc among booklovers ...
February 7, 2024
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