Topic: Tokyo

Book Talk: Haunting image of lighthouse inspires thriller

TOKYO (Reuters) - Michael Koryta was working on a completely different book when he became haunted by the image of a lighthouse built in the woods, despite the fact that he didn't have a story for it.But the image persisted, eventually leading ...

Book by Japan man accused of killing Briton sells well

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 ...

"Grandma next door" poet a Japan bestseller at 99

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 ...
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 ...
Chelsea lives in Los Angeles; Miya lives in Tokyo. A Mystical Thriller, by author Dakota Lane. This elusive story tells the tales of two very unique and seemingly different, but also very parallel lives - that of two young girls intertwined by ...
One of the oldest forms of Japanese poetry is the Haiku. In 1777 he traveled to Tokyo to study under master poets such as Sogan and Chikua, who taught him the art of Haiku. ) When he returned to Tokyo he published ...

Beauty of Haiku

Basho Matsuo (1644 ~ 1694) was famously known as the Saint of Haiku in the history of haiku. ??? The wind from Mt. FujiI put it on the fan.Here, the souvenir from Edo.

5 Books I'd Read

in which the author discusses five books he'd read, if time permitted. I'll get hate mail from Team Bullock for saying so, but I'm sure Jesse James's new girlfriend wrote a way more interesting book with way better pictures than, say, the ...

NYLON STREET VIEW

Everyone knows that style doesn't stop with the runway. As a followup to our original collection of stylish city-dwellers, 2006's Street, we're at it again with Street View: The NYLON Book of Global Style. Our team has stalked the streets of cities ...

Sharp sets December e-reader launch, clashes with Sony

TOKYO (Reuters) - Sharp Corp said on Monday it would launch an e-book service and tablet-style computer in Japan in December, taking on Apple Inc's iPad and domestic rival Sony's Reader.Sharp's GALAPAGOS reader will go on sale in December, and will initially ...
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