These whimsical, escapist books have long been popular in Japan and Korea. But now translations of titles like We'll ...

For more than a century, detective fiction has captivated readers from worldwide with its intricate puzzles, thrilling chases ...

Libraries in contemporary Japanese and Korean fiction are evolving into spaces where reading offers solace, connection, and ...

From its birth in the Jazz Age, Anglo-American science fiction took more than three decades to reach the zenith of its classical development in the 1950s. By contrast, the rise of Japanese science ...

Her areas of specialization are modern Japanese women writers, modern and contemporary Japanese women’s poetry, Japanese literary modernism, and modern Japanese fiction. Hayashi Fumiko: I Saw A Pale ...

Better still: It's about cats, coffee and bookstores. Also called cozy fiction or cat fiction, and primarily found in Japanese and Korean literature, the genre has taken off worldwide. As the Japan ...

In Kingston, Ont., on Wednesday, the book was one of dozens on display on a "Japanese Cozy Fiction" table tucked in a nook at an Indigo bookstore. A handful of customers eagerly looked at the ...