Course meets: Tuesday and Thursday 11:30-12:50 in Fayerweather 217a Office Hours: Monday and Thursday 9:15-10:00 and by appointment Requirements: Assigned readings are to be completed before class.

The program boasts four professors with specializations in the literature and performing arts of classical, medieval, early-modern and modern Japan. In recent years our MA students have gone on to PhD ...

The faces behind Japan’s post-war turbulence, restlessness and extreme passion. In the first part of our series, focusing on ...

and modern Japan by tracing shifts from one extreme to the other in those periods. It will then examine material and artistic products that have resulted from this clash of cultures. Examples from ...

Shuntaro Tanikawa, who pioneered modern Japanese poetry, has died aged 92. Tanikawa, who translated the Peanuts comic strip and penned the lyrics for the theme song of the animation series Astro ...