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In her new collection, A Hundred Years and a Day: 34 Stories , Tomoka Shibasaki —acclaimed author of the novel Spring Garden —offers a...

In Allen Weiss’s forthcoming book on Kyoto’s artistic landscape, Illusory Dwellings , he writes about the unease with which modern...

Recently, writer and translator Frederik L. Schodt was inducted into the Manga Publishing Hall of Fame at this year’s American Manga...