Orlando Sentinel

IS WRITING BECOMING A LOST ART IN JAPAN?

The standard way to begin a letter in Japanese is “haikei,” an honorific that can be literally translated as “your enlightened worship.” So it was a problem when a young businessman miswrote a few ...
Seattle Times

With “ending notes,” elderly Japanese can write what may be difficult to say

TOKYO — Living alone in a tidy little house on the outskirts of Tokyo, 75-year-old Tomohiro Ishizuka spends hours dwelling on things unsaid. There are, he recalls, the stories he never told his two ...
Poughkeepsie Journal

Try a 'first writing' for New Year's. This workshop will teach you the Japanese tradition

This time of year prompts us to reflect on our achievements, places we've visited, and people we've spent time with. As the new year approaches, we often compile a list of aspirations in the form of ...

Akira Otani: “Queerness often shows up in my writing”

The author of The Night of Baba Yaga on writing about yakuza, the Japanese mafia, from a queer lens and winning UK’s Crime ...
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Donald Keene's Japan (Pt. 59): Writing on Ishikawa Takuboku as last large work of career

This July 21, 2012, photo shows Donald Keene during a visit to Ishikawa Takuboku's family grave in Hakodate, Hokkaido. (Provided by the Donald Keene Memorial Foundation) TOKYO -- After a while, the ...
Los Angeles Times

Is the future award-winning novelist a writing robot?

Could a writing robot make novelists obsolete? It might not happen anytime soon, but then again, it might. In Japan, a short novel co-written by an artificial intelligence program (its co-author is ...