Books Dec 8, 2018
Japan's modern crime literature: Centuries in the making
by Mark Schreiber
Japan boasts an impressively large and growing body of native-grown mystery fiction that dates back to the 1920s.
Books Jan 7, 2017
Defining J-Horror: The erotic, grotesque 'nonsense' of Edogawa Rampo
by Eugene Thacker
In Japanese literature, there is a type of horror story that centers on an individual's obsession with a single idea. It arises from the most innocent and everyday circumstances, but gradually this single idea becomes all-consuming, blurring the line between sanity and madness. In ...
Books Dec 17, 2016
Love, obsession and perverted desires in Japan's age of steam
by Damian Flanagan
Japan began to open its doors to the West in the 1850s, after centuries of remaining closed. In the following decade, foreigners' "concessions" were established in port cities such as Yokohama and Kobe to cope with the new visitors. The Japanese, with their characteristic ...
TV | CHANNEL SURF Dec 18, 2015
Three troubled sisters; Japan's favorite mystery author; CM of the week: McDonald's
by Philip Brasor
The heroes of the three stories that make up the omnibus drama "Damashi-banashi" ("Stories of Deceit"; Nippon TV, Sun., 11:15 p.m.) are the somewhat untrustworthy Yoshida siblings. In the first story, younger brother Seiya (Jun Shiso) is portrayed as being the main financial support for ...