"Originally published in 2014 by Iwanami Shoten, Publishers, Tokyo" -- Title page verso. "After World War II, Japanese popular culture was "banned" in Korea. However, despite the official ban, ...

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It’s an adaptation of the first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, a Japanese-British novelist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature ...

This year marks 80 years since Japan’s catastrophic defeat in the Asia-Pacific War. In 1945, the country lay in ruins. Millions had died in battle or in the devastating Allied bombings of Tokyo, ...