Last week Gentosha, a Japanese publisher based in Tokyo’s trendy Shibuya district best known for its literary magazines and manga, published a tanko-bon, hardback, edition… Read more »
Oggi, one of Italy’s oldest and most popular weekly magazines, which is modelled on the American magazine Life, launched a special Italian language edition of… Read more »
Mitsuyo Kakuta, the prolific and popular Japanese author has done it again. Last week, the much anticipated third and final volume of her newly adapted… Read more »
Can’t Write A Novel Without You, Kimi ga inaito shosetsu wa kakenai, a new 443-page novel by the Naoki prize-winning author Kazufumi Shiraishi, was released in hardback,… Read more »
The Chronicles of Lord Asunaro, a Japanese tale – not about daring ninja or battling samurai – but a hero, with a very different penchant,… Read more »
In a society rife with conflict and a world on the edge of extinction, who should we turn to for answers: society’s strongest or weakest? This… Read more »
*** Takuji Ichikawa, November 2019 Currently our world faces many crises: climate change, famine due to floods and droughts, unprecedented wealth inequality, regional conflicts,… Read more »
Earlier this month, the Asahi Shimbun started publishing daily installments of Fuminori Nakamura’s latest novel, The Card Shark (Kaado-shi), in its morning edition and its… Read more »