Prolific writer Yuko Tsushima explores themes of militarization, colonialism and occupation through the identities of mixed-race orphans in postwar Japan.

Chinese books have been brought to Japan ever since. Many of the volumes now sold in Jimbocho cannot be found back in China. Past and present of Chinese literature ...

In both burgeoning urban centers, ambitious middle-class parents embraced such books as steppingstones on their children’s path to literacy and a better life. Japan’s earliest illustrated ...

These books confront readers with the recent past and distant future, bring them to southeastern Africa and an alternative ...