(This is Part 23 of the "Learning from Japanese picture books" series, which introduces recommended Japanese picture books, ...

Since last summer, Bookstart Japan, a nonprofit group that promotes activities to give picture books to parents and children ...

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

leaving us longing for Japanese-inspired stationery and deep-set traditions. The book is divided into five stories about people who visit Shihodo, a stationary shop tucked in Ginza, a district in ...

A picture book has been created based on the true story of parents and their child born on January 17, 1995, when a major earthquake struck western Japan. An event to mark the book's completion ...

Shortly after the end of the devastating war, a book on English conversation came out and became the first postwar best-seller in Japan. Published on Sept. 15, 1945, just one month after the ...