Libraries in contemporary Japanese and Korean fiction are evolving into spaces where reading offers solace, connection, and ...

A local library in Hakusan, Ishikawa Prefecture, offers very little to satisfy the reading needs of long-time resident Marie Shiji. Among the 270,000 general books in the library, only one is in ...

This photo shows a spread of the picture book "Kudamono" (written by Kazuko Hirayama and published by Fukuinkan Shoten Publishers Inc.), for which Bookstart Japan obtained permission from the ...

A children's mobile library run by a Japanese expat in northern Thailand has become more important than ever during the coronavirus pandemic. Horiuchi Yoshimi sees books as "friends" for the ...

A library devoted to Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami's writings ... currently houses about 3,000 of Murakami's books, manuscripts and other materials, including translations of his work in ...