Yama Wayama's Famiresu Iko. Part 2 holds at No. 2.

Osaka is not even Japan’s second city. But its biggest bookstore dwarfs anything in New York, Los Angeles, or, indeed, Chicago. Like all Japanese cities, Osaka is filled with the most modern, and ...

Known for his distinctive storytelling style blending prose with an abundance of visual elements including diagrams, drawings, and illustrations, Uketsu has drawn attention not only in Japan but ...

BEHIND THE RISING SUN—James R. Young—Doubleday, Doran ($3). JAPAN UNMASKED—Hallett Abend—Washburn ($3). Fortnight ago, startled Americans blinked in the rising sunlight and asked: How could it happen?

Best-selling Japanese novelist Murakami's latest book has gone on sale, with 90 percent of the release claimed by a single buyer. Major bookstore Kinokuniya says it ordered 90,000 of the 100,000 ...

All weekend at the NY Art Book Fair, the International Center of Photography is hosting a pop-up reading room called “10x10,” which is focussed on Japanese photo books. Free and open to the public, ...

KALAMAZOO—Twitter messages requesting Japanese books to support Western Michigan University's new major in Japanese garnered thousands of donations, as well as dozens of heartwarming and heartrending ...