Kazuo Ishiguro’s mother was in Nagasaki when the atomic bomb was dropped. A Pale View of Hills marked the start of one of the most lauded writing careers in contemporary literature. And, now ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

On Saturday, May 10, 2025, Burlington hosted its annual Sakura Festival at the Burlington Performing Arts Centre (BPAC) to celebrate the 36th anniversary of the twinning agreement between ...

Kazuo “Pops” Koyanagi, 98, of Wailuku, Maui, passed away peacefully on April 9, 2025, surrounded by family, under the care of Hospice Maui. He was born on April 27, 1926, in Waiehu. Pops ...

Collection of the Iwamura Kazuo Ehon-no-Oka Art Museum. via Kazuo Iwamura At Tokyo’s Itabashi Art Museum, a sprawling Leo Lionni retrospective recently kicked off a much-anticipated two-year ...

Ogoura Kazuo Invited professor, Aoyama Gakuin University; secretary general, Tokyo 2020 Bid Committee. Born in 1938. Graduated from the Law Faculty at the University of Tokyo and the Faculty of ...

Kazuo Umezu's passing leaves a significant void in the manga world, but his impactful works will continue to influence various genres. Umezu was a trailblazer in manga, with iconic horror works ...

The Nobel Prize Committee said it best while awarding him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017: Kazuo Ishiguro “in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory ...

Kazuo Umezu might not be as well known as horror master Junji Ito but there is an argument to be made that Umezu stands tall within the world of horror manga. Unfortunately, the horror artist ...