Special-topics seminars offered recently by our faculty include “Class and Culture in the Literature of Meiji Japan,” “Reading Gaze and Voice in Modern Japanese Literature and Culture,” “Japanese ...

The MA program in Japanese is designed to provide advanced-level training in Japanese language, literature and civilization, with the aim of preparing students for both Japan-related professional ...

Robert Campbell is a scholar of Japanese literature and Director General of ... Campbell said that when he was in his twenties, he read Keene's translation of Chikamatsu Monzaemon's works.

Accept and continue Prof Andrew Gerstle teaches pre-modern Japanese texts ... the word doku does mean reading, so tsundoku should probably only be used when discussing literature.

while a growing interest in translated East Asian literature contributed to an uptick in the number of Japanese novels translated into English. Readers’ tastes, however, have not been restricted ...

What I’m about to say feels heretical, but here goes: the power, the grace, the genius of Haruki Murakami has waned. Murakami’s novels ...

Japanese-born British author Kazuo Ishiguro ... even for people unaccustomed to reading literature. Hayakawa Publishing Corporation prints translations of Ishiguro's works in Japan.

17 as the 2017 winner of the prestigious Yomiuri Prize for Literature in poetry. Angles won the prize—comparable to America's Pulitzer Prize—for his book of Japanese-language poetry "Watashi no ...