Myths and legends about cats in Japan range from the demonic killer tiger to the sweet little Hello Kitty. Cats also play a ...

In the picture book, it is used in the scene where Watanabe comes up with the idea of how to make spaghetti Neapolitan.Cooking loving childrenMy sons love to cook. They seem to be happy to be given ...

Japanese-inspired books were among readers’ favourites at this year’s Books Are My Bag Readers Awards, with Abroad in Japan ...

The pig learns from the tanuki how to transform itself and tries to turn into a tanuki, but his face remains that of a pig. He is thus given the name Butanuki, a portmanteau of "buta" (pig) and tanuki ...

“I’m holding an illustrated book of cheeses,” says a delighted Tomoyo Ozumi, a customer at a growing kind of bookshop in ...

Yet Junichiro Tanizaki, 71, is one of Japan’s leading novelists, and this book, written a decade ago, is a neat compendium of what is best and worst in contemporary Japanese writing. Esoteric ...

The translation of his 10-volume Souvenirs entomologiques (published in English as Fabre’s Book of Insects) remains a favorite among bug-sleuths of all stripes in Japan for its engaging ...

Barbara Mizoguchi is a Sansei (third generation Japanese American), a third generation Washingtonian, and a University of Washington graduate. She began in corporate work and then switched to working ...