The most internationally acclaimed Japanese author of the twentieth century, Yukio Mishima (1925?70) was a prime candidate for the Nobel Prize. But the prolific author shocked the world in 1970 when h
The significance of Natsume Soseki's writing in terms of Japanese literature is massive. Kokoro is a meditation on the changing face of Japanese culture and its attitudes towards honour, friendship, l
One of the central masterpieces of 20th-century Japanese literature, The Gate describes the everyday world of the humble clerk Sosuke and his wife Oyone, living in quiet obscurity in a house at the bo
