Topic: East Asia
TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - A book by a Japanese man accused of killing a British English teacher in a 2007 crime that riveted Japan and how he evaded capture by police for years is selling well less than a month after publication.Tatsuya ...
TOKYO (Reuters) - A 99-year-old woman writing about love, dreams and hanging on to hope has touched the hearts of Japanese worn out by years of a lagging economy, propelling her self-published poetry book onto bestseller lists.Toyo Shibata's success with her first ...
Japan's number two telecom operator KDDI Corp. said Tuesday it would start electronic book distribution this week, offering an initial 20,000 titles for its e-reader.The LISMO Book Store service will start on Saturday for the "biblio Leaf SP02" e-reader, focusing on novels, ...
Publishers in Japan demanded Tuesday that Apple stop selling pirated digital copies of novels by Japanese authors, including Haruki Murakami's "1Q84", in its online book store."We have no choice but to deem it illegal that Apple Inc. distributes materials which clearly violate ...
The longlist for the Man Asian Literary Prize was announced Monday, with Japanese author Kenzaburo Oe, winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature, heading an Indian-dominated field.Six titles by Indian authors were named on the 10-strong list vying for Asia's answer ...
Chinese publishers have pulled a collection of Brothers Grimm fairy tales from children's shelves in book stores after mistakenly translating a Japanese pornographic reinterpretation of the tales.China Friendship Publishing Company and China Media Time translated the erotic retelling of the stories by ...
Nobel Literature Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa praised Monday the award of the Peace Prize to jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, saying the laureate was fighting a fierce dictatorship."I think its magnificent that the (peace) prize was attributed to a great Chinese ...
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Hundreds of fans of far-right Japanese author Yukio Mishima gathered in Tokyo on Thursday to mark the anniversary of his shocking samurai-style suicide after a failed coup attempt 40 years ago.Mishima, who was 45 and an international celebrity when he committed ritual ...
The practice of literary commentary and aesthetic discussion was extensively developed in Japan and is exemplified at its most engaging in the great novel Genji monogatari (c. 1000; Tale of Genji), written by Murasaki Shikibu, lady-in-waiting to the Empress. Many of the ...
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