News & Views

Features, Analysis and Special Reports on Japanese Literature

- Analysis
  
  June 9, 2017
- Opening the Kimono on Japanese words that travel
  
  by Richard Nathan
  Japanese is popping up everywhere these days from Capitol Hill in Washington to supermarkets in London and children’s parties in Paris. Headline writers are using… Read more »
  - TOPICS:
  - Culture
  - Exports
  - Steve Jobs
- Feature
  
  March 22, 2017
- Cool For Cats: Japanese literature and the feline form
  
  by Richard Nathan
  Did you know that the cat population of Japan surpassed dogs in October 2015 reaching 9 million? The number of cats in Japan is now… Read more »
  - TOPICS:
  - Kazufumi Shiraishi
  - Mitsuyo Kakuta
  - Cats
  - Culture
- Analysis
  
  March 8, 2017
- Found in Translation: Japanese literature that sells abroad
  
  by Richard Nathan
  Readers, editors and publishers are opening their eyes to fiction in translation. For the first time in the United Kingdom, translated literary fiction is outselling… Read more »
  - TOPICS:
  - Mitsuyo Kakuta
  - Soji Shimada
  - Exports
  - Industry
- Feature
  
  February 7, 2017
- Romancing Japan: Bonkbusters and the land of the rising sun
  
  by Richard Nathan
  When we hear the term bonkbuster we immediately think of the 1980s and books with titles like: Lace, The Bitch, Savages, The Stud, Hollywood Wives,… Read more »
  - TOPICS:
  - Romance
  - Women Writers
  - Women's Fiction