With Murakami’s first female-led novel arriving this July, the conversation around Japanese women’s writing is long overdue.

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When Nakadai Tatsuya, one of Japan’s most celebrated actors, decided that his young student’s surname was too dull for the ...

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In 1943, the United States government administered a questionnaire to people of Japanese descent who had been confined to ...

A cluster of neon-lit streets lined with multifarious adult entertainment businesses, Kabukicho is the ultimate symbol for Tokyo’s sinful side. As such, it feels only right that the Shinjuku district ...

Last year at Columbia, my alma mater, students asked me to give the undergraduate commencement address and tell them: How, in ...

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After 45 years and 15 novels, Japan’s most celebrated living author gives a woman centre stage — and in doing so, answers the ...