AI Novel Tops Japan's Biggest Fiction Website, Sparking Literary Uproar

An AI-penned romance stormed to No. 1 on Kadokawa’s Kakuyomu site after flooding it with machine-written chapters. Critics ...
CNN

Japan asked the international media to change how we write their names. No one listened

In a full-page spread on March 2, 1979, the Los Angeles Times introduced its readers to Pinyin, a Chinese romanization system it said was changing the “familiar map of China.” In the new system ...
Life Where I'm From on MSN

Japanese Calligraphy Class: A Journey of Discipline and Expression

In Japan, calligraphy is more than just writing—it’s an art form that requires patience, focus, and respect for tradition.
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Donald Keene's Japan (Pt. 59): Writing on Ishikawa Takuboku as last large work of career

This July 21, 2012, photo shows Donald Keene during a visit to Ishikawa Takuboku's family grave in Hakodate, Hokkaido. (Provided by the Donald Keene Memorial Foundation) TOKYO -- After a while, the ...
The Atlantic

Sad, Wise Writing About Japan

The essay that will break your heart this weekend begins this way: Later, lost far at sea, when you're trying to forget all you've left behind, the memory will bubble up unbidden: a village that once ...