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 ...

The publisher’s Japanese Classics series includes famous works by authors such as Haruki Murakami, and comes with cover illustrations by Yuko Shimizu inspired by classic Japanese artworks All eyes are ...

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 ...