Vol. 15 rules this week's Billboard Japan Book Hot 100, a comprehensive list integrating physical books, e-books, library ...

The original Shōgun was a rare phenomenon. More than 1,200 pages and 400,000 words in length, it proved stunningly successful, staying on the best-seller list for more than 30 weeks and selling ...

A translated debut novel by Japanese author and film producer Genki Kawamura has become the No. 1 bestseller so far this year ...

Daisuke Ashihara’s WORLD TRIGGER Vol. 29 is at No. 1 on Billboard Japan's Book Hot 100 chart, tracking the week from Dec. 1 ...

The novel will tell the story of a Japanese office worker who enjoys playing Elden Ring solo at home and reading the game’s guide websites during office break time. When a senior colleague who also ...

Jun Shison's Jun Shison Anniversary Photo Book "final" launches at No. 1 on Billboard Japan's Book Hot 100 chart, on the list ...

Lionel Trilling was at an impasse. “The bare bones of the story are there — and are sound bones,” wrote one of the 20th-century’s pre-eminent men of letters. Yet, Trilling lamented, after a promising ...

The company has teamed with venerable Japanese studio Shochiku to produce “A True Novel” as an eight-part adaptation of Mizumura Minae’s 2003 Yomiuri Prize-winning novel. Inspired by Emily Brontë’s ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - A Chinese author who wrote a novel on the 1989 Tiananmen student demonstrations and the post-Tiananmen lives of those who fled China has won a prestigious Japanese literary award.