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The standard way to begin a letter in Japanese is “haikei,” an honorific that can be literally translated as “your enlightened worship.” So it was a problem when a young businessman miswrote a few ...
TOKYO — Living alone in a tidy little house on the outskirts of Tokyo, 75-year-old Tomohiro Ishizuka spends hours dwelling on things unsaid. There are, he recalls, the stories he never told his two ...
The author of The Night of Baba Yaga on writing about yakuza, the Japanese mafia, from a queer lens and winning UK’s Crime ...
This July 21, 2012, photo shows Donald Keene during a visit to Ishikawa Takuboku's family grave in Hakodate, Hokkaido. (Provided by the Donald Keene Memorial Foundation) TOKYO -- After a while, the ...
Could a writing robot make novelists obsolete? It might not happen anytime soon, but then again, it might. In Japan, a short novel co-written by an artificial intelligence program (its co-author is ...
In a full-page spread on March 2, 1979, the Los Angeles Times introduced its readers to Pinyin, a Chinese romanization system it said was changing the “familiar map of China.” In the new system ...
The essay that will break your heart this weekend begins this way: Later, lost far at sea, when you're trying to forget all you've left behind, the memory will bubble up unbidden: a village that once ...
"The myth that kamikaze, or divine winds, protected Japan against the Mongol invasions of 1274 and 1281 is linked to a belief in absolute victory in the Pacific War in the twentieth century. But what ...