Japanese work culture can be many things: diplomatic, hierarchical, conformist, machine-like and even suffocating. Globally, ...

Six books from around the world, including translations from Japanese, Danish and Kannada, are shortlisted for the 2025 ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- "Butter," the cult Japanese bestseller by Asako Yuzuki inspired by the real-life case of a ...

Shortly after the end of the devastating war, a book on English conversation came out and became the first postwar best-seller in Japan. Published on Sept. 15, 1945, just one month after the ...