Yu Miri won a National Book Award for “Tokyo Ueno Station,” a novel whose main character is the ghost of a homeless construction worker. By Motoko Rich TOKYO — Walking on an autumn Saturday ...

Kazu, the narrator of Tokyo Ueno Station, had hoped that his death would bring him some rest, some sense of closure. The man led a life marked with hard work and intense pain; he spent his final ...

After Tokyo Ueno Station won the National Book Award for Translated Literature in 2020, the original novel became a bestseller in Japan. Akutagawa Prize-winning author Yu Miri’s novel JR Ueno ...

Only halfway through the text is it confirmed that Kazu, the protagonist of Yu Miri’s novel “Tokyo Ueno Station,” is, indeed, dead. In most books, the delay of such a major plot point would ...

“To be homeless is to be ignored when people walk past while still being in full view of everyone,” Yu Miri writes in “Tokyo Ueno Station,” a slender novel which has just appeared in ...

An experiment is under way at JR Ueno Station in Tokyo to create a safer environment for the hearing impaired by converting announcements and even the sound of an approaching train into printed ...

More technology needs to consider fun.” At the moment, Ekimatopeia is only installed on the Keihin-Tohoku Line/Yamanote Line platform of JR Ueno Station in Tokyo, but Honda hopes that it becomes more ...

The park is open daily from 5 a.m. to 11 p.m. Ueno Park is located on the Yamanote Line and just four stops from Tokyo Station. At Ueno Station, look for the park exit sign that will lead you ...

One snowy day in January 1924, the young puppy, some 50 days old, was wrapped in a rice bag to keep him warm for the 20-hour train journey to Ueno Station, Tokyo. Shortly after, he was sent to the ...