Unable to afford textbooks while growing up on Japan’s northwest coast, Yoko Breckenridge would borrow them from friends and copy each chapter by hand. Breckenridge, who married an American soldier ...

However, books are no longer part of the norm for most people. More than 60 percent of Japanese do not read a single book over the course of a month, according to the “public opinion survey on ...

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 ...

YOKOTE, Akita Prefecture--Stocktaking of books at a municipal library here is now fully automated under a trial experiment that potentially could see humans removed from the process altogether.

The Trump administration has canceled several diversity, equity, and inclusion-related grants to university libraries as part ...