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Features, Analysis and Special Reports on Japanese Literature

- Feature
  
  September 10, 2021
- Soseki’s Cat: A Quantum Leap for Japanese Literature
  
  by Richard Nathan
  The mysterious and magical effect of cats is widely celebrated. Cats entertain, evoke stress-reducing emotional responses, constantly and often counter-intuitively amuse, and cats – of… Read more »
  - TOPICS:
  - Fuminori Nakamura
  - Cats
  - Culture
  - Publishing
- Analysis
  
  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
- Feature
  
  March 12, 2021
- Changing Nations: The Japanese Girl With a Book
  
  by Richard Nathan
  A picture or indeed a single look is said to be worth a thousand words and a good work of art or a sketch, according… Read more »
  - TOPICS:
  - Art
  - Culture
  - Women Writers
- Feature
  
  December 18, 2020
- Ultra-Influencers: The Two British Fictional Victorians that Changed Japan
  
  by Richard Nathan
  Lasting influence, the power or capacity of causing an effect indirectly or directly in others, is a powerful and elusive trait that some individuals possess… Read more »
  - TOPICS:
  - Soji Shimada
  - Culture
  - History
  - Storytelling