Japanese literature blends the delicate and the daring, from Murasaki Shikibu’s Tale of Genji to modern icons like Haruki Murakami, Sayaka Murata, Mieko Kawakami, Hiroko Oyamada, Yūko Tsushima and Risa Wataya. Once shaped by isolation, Japan’s storytelling now defines global culture — spanning postwar classics by Yukio Mishima and Kenzaburō Ōe to today’s worldwide boom in novels and manga.
Reading Lists
Reading Around the World Top 5 Books of the Month
This month’s top 5 books range across history, art and human survival; moving across continents, eras and genres. From minute-by-minute reckonings with a political crisis and a chilling first-hand account of the extremes of tyranny, […]
