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Features, Analysis and Special Reports on Japanese Literature

- Feature
  
  November 15, 2018
- The Uncanny Valley: Tales from The Robot-Nation
  
  by Richard Nathan
  The Uncanny Valley isn’t a work of fiction or science fiction or an article about how curious, weird and unknowable Japan is. Neither is it… Read more »
  - TOPICS:
  - Kazufumi Shiraishi
  - Soji Shimada
  - AI
  - Osamu Tezuka
  - Robots
  - Science Fiction
- Feature
  
  October 14, 2018
- March of the Japanese Robot Writers
  
  by Richard Nathan
  Japan is renowned for embracing robot technology in the workplace and has enjoyed a long love affair with dolls and robots of all kinds, whether… Read more »
  - TOPICS:
  - AI
  - Osamu Tezuka
  - Robots
  - Science Fiction
- Feature
  
  September 18, 2018
- Holding Out For A Hero: Japan’s oddball rugby literature
  
  by Richard Nathan
  When Rugby, the all-out macho sport of the elite, officially arrived on Japanese shores in the 1890s, the country was experiencing a revolution-like period of… Read more »
  - TOPICS:
  - Kanji Hanawa
  - Soji Shimada
  - Rugby
  - Sports
- Analysis
  
  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