Japan’s Lost Tradition of Wild Food

'Eating Wild Japan' tracks the culture of foraged foods with a guide to plants and recipes

Studio Ghibli on the Page

The best books of Hayao Miyazaki’s Ghibli universe

2021: What is the Future of Japanese Literature?

With Japanese literature in translation finally breaching feminist frontiers, what’s next?

How the English Language Failed Banana Yoshimoto

Looking back at the Japanese literary icon 30 years after the translation of her debut novel ‘Kitchen’

5 (Translated) Japanese Novels to Read in 2021

New works by Mieko Kawakami, Haruki Murakami and more

Fresh Ink: ‘Tales of the Zashiki Children’ by Kenji Miyazawa

The English-language debut of a prolific Japanese writer

Scientific Literature About an Unscientific World

Kanji Hanawa divulges society’s absurdity in two translated novellas

‘The Hole’ by Hiroko Oyamada

David Boyd translates Oyamada's surreal novel of transformation and isolation

Atomic Trauma and Family Albums – 75 Years Later

Kazu Sashida's crucial book sheds light on the horrors of Hiroshima

Comedy is Tragic in ‘Spark’

A review of manzai star Naoki Matayoshi’s translated novel

Sushi Shokunin: Japan’s Culinary Masters

Photographer Andrea Fazzari delves into Tokyo’s top-level sushi scene

The Resurgence of a Japanese Literary Master

Fifty years after his death, Yukio Mishima is reemerging in translation