Analysis

- Posted March 31, 2026
- Mishima’s Last Supper
  
  by Richard Nathan
  A sk any Japanese publishing executives or well-known contemporary Japanese author to guess what Yukio Mishima’s favourite food was, and you will invariably receive the… Read more »
  - TOPICS:
  - Richard Nathan
  - History
  - Yukio Mishima
- Posted August 6, 2021
- Literary Fallout: The legacies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  
  by Richard Nathan
  The narrative of nuclear war began on 6 August 1945 and the term Atomic Bomb Literature, Genbaku Bungaku, started being used widely from the 1960s… Read more »
  - TOPICS:
  - Soji Shimada
  - Atomic Bomb Literature
  - Culture
  - History
- Posted July 19, 2019
- How To Read A Film: Kurosawa and his books
  
  by Richard Nathan
  Is it necessary, really, to learn how to read a film?’ asks the seminal book on film studies, How To Read a Film, in the… Read more »
  - TOPICS:
  - Fuminori Nakamura
  - Kanji Hanawa
  - Mitsuyo Kakuta
  - Film
  - Publishing
  - Short Story
  - Storytelling
- Posted July 23, 2018
- Japan’s Olympic Literature: Stories from 1964, and Beyond
  
  by Richard Nathan
  In 1964 the Beatles song I want to Hold Your Hand topped the bestselling charts in the United States and The New York Times Fiction Best Seller of… Read more »
  - TOPICS:
  - Culture
  - Olympics
  - Robots
  - Sports