Japanese-Arabic translator Rana Seif feels driven to bring contemporary Japanese novels by women writers to readers in the Middle East, saying that the problems women face are similar in Japan and ...

Japanese-born British author Kazuo Ishiguro is being celebrated around the world for winning this year's Nobel Prize in Literature. The Swedish Academy cited his "novels of great emotional force".

A shining golden wave… washed (her) body away." Yuzuki’s masterpiece introduces us to Japanese butter rice, a dish exquisitely simple, in ways inimical to the usually complex Indian approach ...

The recently discovered writing was apparently brought to Japan by a Japanese emissary. The manuscript is a compilation of commentaries, known as Lunyu Yishu (the elucidation of the meaning of the ...