The Akutagawa Prize has made the career of many up-and-coming Japanese writers – but it’s not without its controversies. Learn more about Japan’s prize for new novelists.
Kochi’s Yosakoi festival has spread around the world due to the way it uniquely centers creativity and freedom.
In 2024, Japan crept closer to equality and acceptance for LGBTQ people. However, full equality still remains out of reach for many.
There are more Japanese books being made available in English every year. Still, only a small portion of them get translated.
Most foreigners reported experiences with a “gaijin hunter”. But the reality of these interactions is more complicated than it seems.
In his newest entry in his “Untranslated” series, Eric Margolis talks with singer-songwriter-essayist Terao Saho to explore her differing approaches to writing and music.
We talked with philosopher and queer fiction author Masaya Chiba on Gilles Deleuze and the challenges of being queer in the modern era.
By collecting extensive data on 119 large Japanese cities and scoring them on a variety of factors, we found an answer to a tough question.
The entertainment industry’s unwillingness to pay skilled language professionals to produce high-quality localizations is a matter of choice.
Subscribe to our free newsletter for a weekly digest of our best work across platforms (Web, Twitter, YouTube). Your support helps us spread the word about the Japan you don’t learn about in anime.
Want a preview? Read our archives
You’ll get one to two emails from us weekly. For more details, see our privacy policy
