Publisher Shogakukan will share its iconic Japanese light novels and manga with Western audiences by launching the digital media app and service Novelous later today, January 23, at 11 PM PST for ...

Saegusa said one reason Japanese novels are not widely read ... They asked a translator to work on an English version of the novel that was good enough for publishing. The translated work was ...

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 ...