News & Views

Features, Analysis and Special Reports on Japanese Literature

- Feature
  
  December 5, 2018
- The Literary Stations of Japan: Narratives from off and on the tracks
  
  by Richard Nathan
  During most weekdays more people pass through Tokyo’s busiest station than live in Paris. The figures are staggering. Of the 50 busiest stations in the… Read more »
  - TOPICS:
  - Randy Taguchi
  - Roger Pulvers
  - Soji Shimada
  - Culture
  - railways
  - trains
  - travel
- 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