The sound of small voices yelling “konichiwa” – Japanese for hello – drifted out of the small children’s room in the University Park Library. Inside the room, colorful patchwork quilts hung on the ...

Statistics on libraries in Japan released by the Japan Library Association show that the collections at public libraries in 2017 totaled 442.82 million books, and that there were 691.47 million loans ...

The city of Nasushiobara has just got a new library and community centre courtesy of the dynamic Japanese architecture studio of Mari Ito, UAo. A geometric composition out of glass, metal and timber, ...

The All Japan Taiwanese Union (AJTU) in a letter yesterday asked Japanese National Diet Library (NDL) director-general Motonobu Yoshinaga to change how Taiwan is addressed on its Web site from “Taiwan ...

Jubilee REACH broke ground this week on a new Japanese library on their campus. “This miracle never would have happened at any place other than Jubilee REACH. What a wonderful moment for us!” said one ...

NARASHINO, Chiba -- The designer of a university library in this eastern Japan city apparently believed that architecture is a culmination of expression and techniques. Visiting the facility made this ...