Creative writers don’t earn much in this country, unless they lend their talents to someone else, for far less literary reasons than writing a novel or a collection of poems.

Tokyo police have obtained an arrest warrant for a Chinese teenage boy for alleged property damage after graffiti was found ...

The English translation of Yang Shuang-zi’s (楊?子) Taiwan Travelogue (臺灣漫遊錄) made history after it became the latest winner of ...

The English translation of Yang Shuang-zi's (楊双子) "Taiwan Travelogue" (臺灣漫遊錄) made history after it became the latest winner ...

TOTTORI--To order a custom-made fountain pen from Ryo Yamamoto, expect to wait 18 months for delivery. Yamamoto, 50, said he ...

Working at Sony gave me an opportunity to closely observe how the Japanese communicate. This essay is a summary of my ...

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Timothy O'Neill is an expert calligrapher whose work can be found in collections worldwide. His latest book, The Irish Art of ...

Japanese police have arrested a 65-year-old American tourist for allegedly defacing a Tokyo shrine. The man, identified as ...