Also holding steady at No. 2 is the latest volume of the Monthly Sunday GX manga adaptation of Kusuriya no Hitorigoto (The ...

Vol. 15 of Soso no Frieren ( Frieren: Beyond Journey's End) by Kanehito Yamada and Tsukasa Abe keeps at No. 1 on Billboard ...

Osaka is not even Japan’s second city. But its biggest bookstore dwarfs anything in New York, Los Angeles, or, indeed, Chicago. Like all Japanese cities, Osaka is filled with the most modern, and ...

There are a lot of reasons to start your kids learning a new language: preparation for a move to a new country, giving them greater ability to communicate with relatives and friends or simply to ...

As the largest online catalog of published Japanese content in the world, Japan Book Bank (JBB) is the best and easiest way for publishers and copyright agents to discover new Japanese books and ...

As someone who enjoys reading and discussing Japanese literature, I have been pleasantly surprised by the growing number of translated Japanese books that have come out in the U.S. in recent years.

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One of the biggest foreign rights stories in book publishing this year is the resurgence in popularity of Japanese fiction, from ‘cozy lit’ to feminist crime. Its unique qualities are not just the ...

GOVERNMENT BY ASSASSINATION—Hugh Byas—Knopf ($3). With the possible exception of Joseph Clark Grew, there is no one as well qualified to explain the Japanese to Americans as Hugh Byas. Ambassador Grew ...

Best-selling Japanese novelist Murakami's latest book has gone on sale, with 90 percent of the release claimed by a single buyer. Major bookstore Kinokuniya says it ordered 90,000 of the 100,000 ...

All weekend at the NY Art Book Fair, the International Center of Photography is hosting a pop-up reading room called “10x10,” which is focussed on Japanese photo books. Free and open to the public, ...