TOKYO — Shuntaro Tanikawa, who pioneered modern Japanese poetry, poignant but conversational in its divergence from haiku and other traditions, has died. He was 92. Tanikawa, who translated the ...

Four volumes of Japanese haiku poems written by a variety of masters are among the items up for bids in this week’s Professor Parsons’ Picks auction sponsored by the Friends of A.K. Smiley Public ...

TOKYO -- Among the Japanese literary figures Donald Keene admired was Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902), who was the subject of a serial he carried in the Shincho magazine during 2011. Keene credited Shiki ...

Poet Violet Kazue de Cristoforo died last week at age 90. She was famous for writing and collecting haiku poems that captured life in Japanese internment camps during World War II. Her groundbreaking ...

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British football terrace culture has been blended with traditional Japanese literature by a Wolverhampton writer who has launched his first book. Matt Eccles has released his cheekily named book, Who ...