Murakami Haruki’s first appearance in the New Yorker came with the English translation of his short story “TV People,” which appeared in the issue for September 10, 1990. The publication of a Japanese ...

Japan was the center of attention at this year’s Paris Book Fair, held March 16–19, 2012. Sekiguchi Ryōko, who was part of the Japanese delegation of specially invited authors, looks back on the event ...

TSUKUBA, Ibaraki -- U.S.-born Japanologist Donald Keene (1922-2019) was determined to prove to an English-speaking audience that Japanese literature is beautiful, and even helped Japanese people ...

Modern writers like Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, and John Steinbeck are well known in American literary circles. These writers are often included in high school English and ...

Donald Keene reads a book at his home in Tokyo's Kita Ward, in this photo taken on Oct. 26, 2014. (Provided by the Donald Keene Memorial Foundation) TOKYO -- The Mainichi carried a 60-part series ...

Like many of the best things in Tokyo, the French restaurant is underground. Outside, only the lettering “Vincent” on a slab of stone – more tombstone than marquee – alerts you to its existence. Yet ...

American-born Japanese literature scholar Donald Keene (1922-2019) was 16 when he encountered kanji Chinese characters. So different from the English alphabet, the ideograms captivated him. Keene ...

Edward Seidensticker, a pioneering scholar and translator of Japanese literature, including the epic “Tale of Genji,” has died in Tokyo. He was 86. Seidensticker died Sunday after slipping into a coma ...

ALTHOUGH Tokyo is, naturally, the literary center of Japan, one of the Meccas of modern Japanese literature is a small town called Magome, in a mountain valley some hundred and fifty miles west of the ...

Donald Keene, whose translations of Japanese literature into English and prodigious academic output helped define the study of the subject and made him a celebrity in Japan, died on Sunday in Tokyo.