“Convenience Store Human” by Sayaka Murata. Sound unfamiliar? That’s the literal title of the smash-hit 2016 novel “コンビニ人間” (konbini ningen). When it appeared in English...
This year has already seen unseasonably warm weather, and it seems the 桜 (sakura, cherry blossoms) are eager to show themselves. That means you’re going...
Hideo Takayama first became conscious of the term “ankyo” back in 2000 when he bought a house in Ikenoue, a residential neighborhood in Tokyo’s western...
Amid the lush greenery of Ayacho in Kyushu’s Miyazaki Prefecture, where a forest straddles a tropical-temperate zone inside the UNESCO-designated Aya Biosphere Reserve, a natural...