"Ruraru-san no Hondana," written and illustrated by Hiroshi Ito (Published by Poplar Publishing Co. Ltd., 2005) ...

Vault Comics switches from publishing comics to publishing Japanese light novels from April 2025... or so it appears at least ...

In the picture book, the lion tells Mr. Barbar that his mane is tangled and he is in trouble. Untangle is "hodoku" in Japanese. Chokichoki-- This is an onomatopoeia used when cutting something ...

"Ruraru-san no Hondana," written and illustrated by Hiroshi Ito (Published by Poplar Publishing Co. Ltd., 2005)Story outlineMr. Ruraru's bookshelf (th Full article The Mainichi on social media ...

16, 2025, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) Uketsu, a Japanese YouTuber and horror author holds his books at his media ...

In fact, he is a "hikikomori," or social recluse. Saito describes himself as “a Japanese novelist who writes novels and poems in Romanian while living in Japan.” “The story of how I ...

However, books are no longer part of the norm for most people. More than 60 percent of Japanese do not read a single book over the course of a month, according to the “public opinion survey on ...

Novelous is a new app to read manga and novel, but it has sparked controversies due to the use of AI translation.

Japanese-born British author Kazuo Ishiguro is being celebrated around the world for winning this year's Nobel Prize in Literature. The Swedish Academy cited his "novels of great emotional force".