The Yomiuri Prize for Literature, now in its 68th year ... drawing praise from one of the four poets—Shuntarō Tanikawa, who is one of Japan's most famous poets. Many of the poems in Angles' Yomiuri ...

In a sense, the work is an encyclopedia of Japanese literature. Even Murakami Haruki leans on the famous forebear in his international bestseller Kafka on the Shore. The characters dissect ...

Both rely on credulity toward his veneer of multiculturalism and political relevance, and a willingness to refrain from comparing him to the handful of less famous Japanese ... Many of Japan’s ...

In Ise monogatari (The Tales of Ise), the protagonist makes a famous eastward journey ... locations create continuities running through Japanese literature as later travelers enter into dialogue ...

Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan will be housing the Japanese author's personal archive A library of works by famous Japanese ... Waseda International House of Literature, also known as the ...