Minimalist Tokyo bookstore stocks only one book each week
There’s too much to read. This nagging anxiety afflicts everyone working in/for/around books at some point. And while it’s easy to see how luxurious a complaint it might be, it’s a… Read more »
Japanese reading public morphs to love anything that comes from Haruki Murakami’s pen
Haruki Murakami’s new book, Onna no Inai Otokotachi [provisionally translated as “Men Without Women”], hit Japanese bookstores last week, providing, once again, proof of an unusual natural phenomenon: the ability… Read more »
Anne Frank books vandalized in Tokyo
Japan has been hit with an ugly string of vandalism recently, with hundreds of copies of Anne Frank books defaced in Tokyo libraries. Martin Fackler writes for the New York… Read more »