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The history of internment camps for Japanese Americans in the U.S. during World War II has been the focus of several of George Takei's projects, including the Broadway show "Allegiance" and his memoir titled “They Called Us Enemy.”
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George Takei brings children’s book on wartime internment to Japan
The “Star Trek” actor has written about his experience in the internment camps in the U.S. during World War II.
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TV icon Tetsuko Kuroyanagi's memoir paints a life of both war and glamour
“Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window, The Sequel,” TV personality Tetsuko Kuroyanagi’s second memoir, comes out more than 40 years after the first.
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‘Palaver’: A queer story set in Tokyo searches for a home for the heart
A finalist for this year’s National Book Award for Fiction in the U.S., Bryan Washington’s “Palaver” is a gentle exploration of leaving and arriving.
"Menheim” is a dark fantasy manga with a story that centers on a girl’s quest to find a cure for her ill brother.
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Oct 25, 2025
Spanish artist and Japanese writer duos diversify the manga talent pool in Japan
By Gendel Gento
As manga and anime’s global popularity grows, international artists are getting new opportunities to enter the booming industry.
Workers in Okinawa oxidize a pool of indigo dye, one of many regional textile craft traditions examined in Charlotte Linton's new book.
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Oct 24, 2025
New book scrutinizes sustainability of traditional Japanese textiles
By Jessica Kozuka
In “Dyeing with the Earth,” an Oxford research fellow examines how Japan’s age-old textile traditions sometimes run counter to modern ideas of eco-friendly processes.
In his book, correspondent Chris Horton examines Taiwan's history but also brings the story into the present by tracing its strategic alignments today.
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Oct 13, 2025
'Ghost Nation' puts Taiwan’s history in present context
By Athena Tong
Horton, a veteran correspondent who has lived in Taiwan for more than a decade, devotes substantial space in the book to the transformative years of Japanese rule over Taiwan.
Laszlo Krasznahorkai, a Hungarian novelist, in 2014. Krasznahorkai was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday.
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Oct 10, 2025
Hungarian 'master of the apocalypse' Laszlo Krasznahorkai wins Nobel Prize in literature
The prize was awarded "for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art."
“Archipelago of the Sun” by Yoko Tawada is part of a trilogy billed as a dystopian future under threat of climate crisis.
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Sep 24, 2025
Yoko Tawada’s wandering trilogy concludes search for the 'land of sushi'
By Thu-Huong Ha
In “Archipelago of the Sun,” the merry band of polyglot friends board a boat crossing the Baltic Sea, still vaguely in search of a disappeared Japan.
Osamu Dazai struggled with depression and addiction, themes that were also central to his writing.
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Sep 22, 2025
Why Japan’s most melancholic writer speaks to today’s youth
By Kris Kosaka
Osamu Dazai's works are enjoying a new boom of retranslations and readers 80 years after they were first published.
“Swallows” examines the intersections of class and reproductive issues with a focus on its protagonist who is talked into becoming a surrogate for a wealthy couple.
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Sep 5, 2025
‘Swallows' untangles the murky ethics of selling motherhood
By Kris Kosaka
“Swallows” examines the intersections of class and reproductive issues with a focus on its protagonist who is talked into becoming a surrogate for a wealthy couple.

Japan to require nationality in property registrations
The government is looking to include nationality in a planned property registration database amid concerns that condominium purchases by foreign citizens have driven up prices.
The key points under discussion on policies affecting foreign nationals
Visitors head to Shirakawago, a popular tourist spot, in Gifu Prefecture in November.
Man accused of shooting Abe apologizes to former PM’s widow and family
The Nara District Court where Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, is on trial for the murder of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Abe's wife, Akie, attended the trial on Wednesday for the first time.
China massing military ships across region in show of maritime force, sources say
A Chinese warship participates in joint Navy exercise of Iran, China and Russia in the Gulf of Oman, Iran, on March 12.
Japan’s fitness industry is catering to a new clientele: Health-conscious seniors
Masato Edamitsu, the 60-year-old founder of Shinshin Kenko Club, training and guiding his client
Kashima or Kashiwa: J. League title chase goes down to the wire
Kashima's Yuma Suzuki (center) takes a shot during a game against Kashiwa in March.
2025 was the year Japan’s box office returned
In 2025, “Demon Slayer” and “Kokuho” broke box-office records, while films such as “Renoir,” A Pale View of the Hills” and “Two Strangers, Two Seasons” garnered acclaim on the international film festival circuit. The year’s biggest loss was the death of Tatsuya Nakadai, an highly regarded actor who had worked with nearly all of the top directors of Japanese cinema’s postwar golden age.
The key points under discussion on policies affecting foreign nationals
Visitors head to Shirakawago, a popular tourist spot, in Gifu Prefecture in November.
A French cabbie behind the wheel in small-town Japan
A native of the Jura region of France, Severine Lamielle moved to Tottori Prefecture in 2024 and found a job as a taxi driver.
A new animation festival lands in Nagoya with big plans
Aichi Nagoya International Animation Film Festival director Shinichiro Inoue (left) and artistic director Tadashi Sudo (right) started the new event in Nagoya in part due to local government support and Aichi Prefecture’s ongoing investment in arts and culture.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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