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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Print and digital book sales combined, generated $15.59 billion USD in Japan, last year. This was an overall increase of 5% from figures published in 2019. This is the second year in a row that sales ...

Japanese literature is celebrated for its emotional depth, poetic subtlety, and profound insight into human nature. From classical court tales to modern existential novels, Japanese authors have ...

Naomi Hirahara didn’t shy away from “airing the dirty laundry” of 1940s Japanese internment camps and the migration to Chicago in her book, “Clark and Division,” and she attracted hundreds of area ...

Kadokawa Game Linkage has announced that it will release a Monster Hunter Wilds guide book in Japan on the same day Capcom releases the game worldwide on February 28, 2025. The Japanese book will have ...

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