Japan is famous, among many other things, for its exceptionally high literacy rate. Although Japan has not conducted literacy surveys in more than 60 years,...
A recent booklet titled MIYOGAWARI takes on the range of rituals marking the changing of Japan’s era from Heisei to Reiwa. It aims to explain...
Very few people are not aware of Leo Tolstoy, the genius Russian writer. His works are published in many foreign languages. Indeed, more than...
When Sayaka Murata’s Convenience Store Woman came out in English in 2018, it was an immediate hit, selling over 650,000 copies and winning the prestigious...
Alan Booth is best known as the author of The Roads to Sata, his account of a solo walk from the northern tip of Hokkaido,...
Japanese author Naoki Hyakuta has just published a new book, Now is the Time to Apologize to South Korea, Then Say Farewell. ...
Author Jonathan Manthorpe, a Canadian citizen with decades of residence in Asia as a foreign correspondent, has chosen his title well. Despite its cuddly...
Presented by Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture (JPIC) This book describes the history of the relationship between the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF),...
Presented by Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture (JPIC) Official development assistance (ODA), direct investment in Southeast Asia, participation in the Cambodian peace process,...
Presented by Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture (JPIC) Large enterprises account for no more than 11,000 of the 3.86 million companies in Japan—99.7...
Presented by Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture (JPIC) This book traces the footsteps of modern Japan’s diplomacy by reviewing the extraordinary philosophical and...
Robert Frost, though far from being as well-known in Japan as in the United States, is widely remembered as someone who wrote the poem that...
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