FUJISAWA, Kanagawa Prefecture--A graduate student painstakingly restored a notebook kept by acclaimed author Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) that offers a keen insight into the writer’s viewpoint on ...

Though he died by his own hand at the age of 35, novelist Ryunosuke Akutagawa's accomplishments were such that, even after so brief a writing career, Japan's most prestigious literary accolade — the ...

This story is based on a Buddhist worldview in which people continually reincarnate after death. Those with the worst behavior end up in hell. And paradise is the final destination attainable only by ...

A program focusing on a 1921 journey by the Japanese writer Akutagawa Ryūnosuke sheds new light on China—and the insights the author brought back to Japan almost a century ago. During the early ...

Books of proverbs and aphorisms abound, with their sources ranging from the 17th-century French moralist Francois de La Rochefoucauld to the Japanese author Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) and even ...

Eighty years ago, in January 1927, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, his wife and his youngest son waited for the train that would take them back to Tokyo. Akutagawa and his family had been away for almost a year ...

‘The Case-Book of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa’ presents 12 scenes from the life of the writer known as the father of the Japanese short story We expect biographies to portray events in the real lives of real ...

Peace’s treatment reads rather like a cover version in which the singer has added a load of unnecessary oohs and ahhs. By Johanna Thomas-Corr Shortly before his suicide in 1927, the Japanese writer ...