Wu Zhongming is their contact in Jimbocho. The man in Japan Wu owns a used bookstore specializing in rare Chinese texts. He was born in 1974 to a Japanese mother and Chinese father.

Jimbocho has become a hub for restaurants selling Japanese-style curry. Credit: Getty Images Ask any ramen fan in Tokyo and they’ll tell you that Jimbocho is an essential stop during your time ...

Thousands of bibliophiles are expected to descend on Tokyo's Jinbocho neighborhood over the next week or so as the city celebrates the 60th anniversary of its largest secondhand book fair.

Most of the merchandise is in Japanese, ... Jimbocho Station (Shinjuku, Mita, Hanzomon lines), exit A4. Directions Website Call. Advertising. Popular on Time Out [image] [category] ...

Right outside the north exit of Chofu Station in western Tokyo is Shinko Syoten, a brick-and-mortar bookstore that Hideharu Yahata’s father-in-law opened in 1968 — back when Japan was on one ...

Curry, or more specifically kare-raisu (curry rice) has a long tradition in Japan, but it really took off after 1931 when Crosse & Blackwell (a British company) ...

A Heavy-Hitting Publisher Languished in Xi’s China. Now He Hand-Sells Books in Japan. Even moderate intellectuals have joined an exodus from China as the space for free expression narrows ...

“Japan is a print culture,” Russet Lederman, the iniator of the pop-up library, said in an e-mail. “Anyone who visits the Jimbocho area in Tokyo sees this immediately—there is a shop for ...