Tatsuki Fujimoto's Chainsaw Man Vol. 24 hits No. 1 on the Billboard Japan Book Hot 100, on the list released June 11.

Osaka is not even Japan’s second city. But its biggest bookstore dwarfs anything in New York, Los Angeles, or, indeed, Chicago. Like all Japanese cities, Osaka is filled with the most modern, and ...

Some novels cross borders because they offer escape. Others last because they make ordinary lives feel newly visible.

Debuting at No. 2 is the final installment (Vol. 31) of Mayu Murata's popular shojo manga Honey Lemon Soda.

Japanese books are hot. Walk into a U.S. bookstore and you’re likely to see a representative array of Japanese titles in translation: classics and current bestsellers by literary heavyweights, cozy ...

Three new books delve into how Japanese politicians, military officers, and academics navigated the tumultuous transformations of the interwar period: their country’s rapid modernization, the ...

Missing for decades from the Anglophile version of its origin story was another great visual narrative tradition, of the East. By Leonard S. Marcus Leonard S. Marcus is the author of “Pictured Worlds: ...