Here is a witty and learned literary excursion into the world of humour and comic literature as r...
The year is 1600. It is April and Japan’s iconic cherry trees are in full flower. A battered ship...
My Korea: Forty Years Without a Horsehair Hat is a cultural introduction to Korea, part memoir an...
Olonkho is the general name for the entire Yakut heroic epic that consists of many long legends –...
South Korea 1957. Sukey, an intelligent graduate with much promise, falls in love with a man, Kwo...
Published in association with the Japan Society and containing 57 essays, this ninth volume in th...
It is 1942. Shanghai after Pearl Harbor. Newly-arrived Eiko Kishimoto, a twenty-year-old, London-...
This is a translation of the only known detailed account of the building of the notorious 262-mil...