Korea Foundation (KF) and the K-Book Promotion Association in Japan are jointly hosting the annual K-Book Festival 2024 in Tokyo this weekend. Marking its sixth edition, 35 Japanese publishing ...

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Tokyo’s charming neighbourhood of Jimbocho is commonly referred to as Jimbocho Book Town, thanks to the overwhelming number of antique bookstores lining the streets. If you want to learn more ...

Given the choice between returning to her home in Kyushu or moving into the musty spare room above her oddball uncle's secondhand bookshop in the Jimbocho book quarter of Tokyo, she chooses the ...

But while becoming immersed in the ambience of the historic bookstores in Tokyo’s famous Jimbocho Book Town in person is still impossible for many, store owners have teamed up to make that ...

Satoshi Yagisawa’s overseas blockbuster (translated by Eric Ozawa) takes place in the real-life Jimbocho Book Town, a neighbourhood composed almost entirely of bookstores (more than a hundred of ...

Almost no one. Ramen – one of the main reasons to visit Jimbocho.Credit: Getty Images And yet, four big reasons to visit. The first? Books. Jimbocho, a relatively low-rise suburb within walking ...

Takako is now more receptive to all that Jimbocho has to offer, including the bookshop’s many visitors and her uncle’s favourite cushion named Roy. The strength of a book such as this lies in ...

Nowadays, he pulls a collapsible shopping trolley around Jimbocho, Tokyo’s book district, personally entreating shops to stock the three titles he has to offer as a self-funded publisher.