Craving the energy of Tokyo’s liveliest street market? Step into Ameyoko Market, the bustling shopping strip near Ueno ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

and never too far from the sobering camps of the homeless that live within its gates. Tokyo Ueno Station, by Yu Miri, Translated by Morgan Giles.

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 ...

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 ...

A 45-year-old man was arrested on Friday on suspicion of attempted murder after he stabbed two men, apparently at random, outside a ticket gate at JR Ueno Station in Tokyo. According to police, the ...