TSUKUBA, Ibaraki -- U.S.-born Japanologist Donald Keene (1922-2019) was determined to prove to an English-speaking audience that Japanese literature is beautiful, and even helped Japanese people ...

Japan was the center of attention at this year’s Paris Book Fair, held March 16–19, 2012. Sekiguchi Ryōko, who was part of the Japanese delegation of specially invited authors, looks back on the event ...

Modern writers like Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, and John Steinbeck are well known in American literary circles. These writers are often included in high school English and ...

American-born Japanese literature scholar Donald Keene (1922-2019) was 16 when he encountered kanji Chinese characters. So different from the English alphabet, the ideograms captivated him. Keene ...

Susumu Nakanishi, professor emeritus in Japanese literature at Osaka Women's University, is seen during an interview with the Mainichi Shimbun, in Kyoto's Nishikyo Ward, on April 10, 2018.

ALTHOUGH Tokyo is, naturally, the literary center of Japan, one of the Meccas of modern Japanese literature is a small town called Magome, in a mountain valley some hundred and fifty miles west of the ...

Poet and translator. Born in Ireland. Earned degrees in English literature and philosophy from University College Dublin and went on to gain his PhD in English literature. Has been a visiting fellow ...

Edward Seidensticker, a pioneering scholar and translator of Japanese literature, including the epic “Tale of Genji,” has died in Tokyo. He was 86. Seidensticker died Sunday after slipping into a coma ...

Donald Keene, whose translations of Japanese literature into English and prodigious academic output helped define the study of the subject and made him a celebrity in Japan, died on Sunday in Tokyo.

In recent years, Japanese literature has quietly but powerfully found a devoted readership in India. From the dreamy, surreal worlds of Haruki Murakami to the gripping and emotionally layered ...