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YASUNARI KAWABATA

Author Yasunari Kawabata¡¯s ¡°The Rainbow¡± seems to suggest it is never too late to heal, so long as we face our pain rather than run away.
CULTURE / Books
Dec 21, 2023
¡®The Rainbow¡¯: Artistic world underscores truths of the human heart
Despite resonant themes, this translation of Nobel Prize-winner Yasunari Kawabata¡¯s novel about lingering grief and regrets feels strangely distant.
CULTURE / Books
Apr 16, 2022
Japan¡¯s first Nobel literature laureate a towering figure 50 years after death
The anniversary of the death of Yasunari Kawabata is being marked with an exhibition and a new adaptation of one of his works.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Aug 1, 2020
¡®A Late Chrysanthemum¡¯: A short story collection full of pathos and maturity
This anthology of short stories may tend toward the morally dubious, but it¡¯s a solid introduction to literary masters of the 20th century.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books / ESSENTIAL READING FOR 51³Ô¹ÏÍøOPHILES
Aug 4, 2018
¡®First Snow on Fuji¡¯: Yasunari Kawabata exhibits his mastery of the short story
In ¡®First Snow on Fuji,¡¯ nine short stories and one dramatic work selected by Kawabata himself highlight this literary master¡¯s minimalist prose.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books / ESSENTIAL READING FOR 51³Ô¹ÏÍøOPHILES
May 19, 2018
Yasunari Kawabata¡¯s ¡®Dandelions¡¯ probes the nature of mental illness
Initially published by Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972) in 22 installments between June 1964 and October 1968, and subsequently revised from his notes after his death, ¡®Dandelions¡¯ examines the nature of memory.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Dec 2, 2017
Yasunari Kawabata¡¯s surrealist window on the world
Opening with one of the most famous lines in Japanese literature ¡ª ¡°Emerging from the long border tunnel, they entered snow country,¡± shifting us at speed from the darkness of the tunnel into the bright light of the snow ¡ª Yasunari Kawabata¡¯s novel ¡°Snow Country¡± tells of a city-dwelling, worldly...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books / ESSENTIAL READING FOR 51³Ô¹ÏÍøOPHILES
Aug 5, 2017
¡®The Lake¡¯: Yasunari Kawabata at his darkest
Yasunari Kawabata is often seen in the West as one of the quintessential modern Japanese writers. His most famous novels are filled with tea ceremonies and geisha and his prose is a consummate example of mono no aware, the Japanese aesthetic that finds beauty in the transience of things.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books / ESSENTIAL READING FOR 51³Ô¹ÏÍøOPHILES
Apr 29, 2017
¡®Beauty and Sadness¡¯: Yasunari Kawabata¡¯s last published novel explores the extremes of human emotion
Yasunari Kawabata¡¯s last published novel plumbs the depths of human emotion
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Dec 3, 2016
An exploration of the game at the heart of ¡®The Master of Go¡¯
The Chinese board game of go has fallen in and out of fashion over the past 2,500 years.
CULTURE / Books / ESSENTIAL READING FOR 51³Ô¹ÏÍøOPHILES
Mar 19, 2016
Yasunari Kawabata meditates on nature and Westernization in ¡®The Old Capital¡¯
Yasunari Kawabata¡¯s novels are like secret gardens with sadly beautiful flowers. First published in 1962, ¡°The Old Capital¡± ¡ª an elegiac meditation on the cultural heritage of Kyoto ¡ª was one of the works that earned him the Nobel Prize in Literature. It is a story that moves from spring to winter...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books / ESSENTIAL READING FOR 51³Ô¹ÏÍøOPHILES
Jul 4, 2015
Yasunari Kawabata¡¯s ¡®Palm-of-the-Hand Stories¡¯ are taut tales of the human heart
¡°Palm-of-the-Hand Stories¡± is a collection of 70 very brief stories by Nobel Prize-winner Yasunari Kawabata that were written between the early 1920s and 1970s. It contains poetic depictions of emotions, a focus on feelings rather than understanding. These stories present the chaos of the human heart,...
CULTURE / Books / ESSENTIAL READING FOR 51³Ô¹ÏÍøOPHILES
Mar 28, 2015
Morbid beauty and charged sexuality of Yasunari Kawabata¡¯s ¡®Thousand Cranes¡¯
Yasunari Kawabata¡¯s tense 1952 novel contains all the writer¡¯s hallmarks: beautiful language, obsessive sexuality and contempt for the era.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Jan 3, 2015
In Kawabata¡¯s footsteps to ¡®Snow Country¡¯
¡°The train came out of the long tunnel into the snow country.¡±
CULTURE / Books / ESSENTIAL READING FOR 51³Ô¹ÏÍøOPHILES
Jul 19, 2014
House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories
Yasunari Kawabata¡¯s novella ¡°House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories¡± is one of his finest works. It is primarily concerned with the connections between the youth and old age, sex, death, life and memory.
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Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara (second from left) addresses a meeting of ministers responsible for policies concerning foreign residents, held at the Prime Minister's Office on Friday.
Head of Swiss euthanasia firm dies after collapsing while ascending Mount Fuji
Around 200,000 people typically scale the 3,776 meter Mount Fuji each year.
Indian brothers make manga debut in Japan
Two Indian brothers made their manga debut in Japan with "Kung Fu Kung Fool" ¡ª an action-comedy series that follows the adventures of a notorious thief and a young boy.
Japan scientists identify clusters of protein believed to trigger Alzheimer¡¯s disease
A team of researchers said they found a ¡°seed¡± that accelerates the amyloid beta accumulation process in the brain, naming it ¡°Peak 1 amyloid beta,¡± as seen in a mouse's brain.
Japan to set up expert working group on accepting foreign nationals
Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara (second from left) addresses a meeting of ministers responsible for policies concerning foreign residents, held at the Prime Minister's Office on Friday.
Inside Toho Archive¡¯s mission to save Japan¡¯s cinematic memory
The goal of restoration is not to artificially upscale but to return the film to the condition it was in ¡°the very first day it appeared in the world,¡± says Nobushige Toshima, president and sales division manager of Toho Archive.
The sci-fi sensibilities of electronic trio Black Boboi
Black Boboi was formed in 2018 when solo artists Julia Shortreed, Utena Kobayashi and Ermhoi came together under Kobayashi¡¯s newly founded label, Bindividual.
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Okayama-born singer-songwriter Kaze Fujii has carved out a distinctive place in Japanese pop since his major-label debut in 2019.
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