A chance encounter with "The Tale of Genji", a masterpiece of Japanese literature, led Donald Keene to a scholarly life aimed ...

This interview has been edited for length and clarity. FM: Why did you end up studying Japanese texts? DA: As a kid, my family were followers of an Indian guru, and so we spent time as sort of ...

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.

October saw the launch of Monkey, Japan's newest English literary magazine. The journal, which features some of the world's best known writers and translators, publishes contemporary Japanese fiction ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Dr. Jeffrey Angles, Western Michigan University professor of world languages and literatures, was honored during a formal ceremony in Tokyo Feb. 17 as the 2017 winner of the ...

Japanese literature is celebrated for its emotional depth, poetic subtlety, and profound insight into human nature. From classical court tales to modern existential novels, Japanese authors have ...

Between their iconic black-and-white-and-orange covers, the Penguin Classics line offers canonical texts by internationally recognized masters of literature like Pablo Neruda, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and ...

Affiliated Faculty are not employees of the Center for Asian Studies. Please contact this faculty member at their home department. Ph.D., Modern Japanese Literature, University of British Columbia, ...

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 Sunday in Tokyo. He ...