Widely regarded as the greatest figure of modern Japanese literature, the novelist Natsume Soseki (1867-1916) has inspired many hundreds of books of critical analysis. Yet the true Soseki was a far ...

Dec. 9 marks the 100th anniversary of the death of Natsume Soseki (1867-1916), a novelist widely regarded as being the one of the greatest writers of modern Japan. Events commemorating this ...

Jack the Ripper depicted as a phantom stalking Whitechapel, London, in 1888. A Psychodrama in Seven Acts By Damian Flanagan Introduction Widely regarded as the greatest figure of modern Japanese ...

In 1900, the future novelist Natsume Soseki — then a scholar of English literature — arrived in London to commence two years of study abroad. Back in Japan, his best friend, the renowned haiku poet ...

A portrait of Natsume Sōseki, Japan’s most highly regarded modern author, 150 years after his birth. Skilled in both the traditional learning of classical Chinese and the newly fashionable English, ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Life did not begin well for Natsume Soseki, the founding father of modern Japanese fiction, most famed for his ...

The American writer Ernest Hemingway once compared writers to boxers, amusingly speculating who would beat whom in a bout. Hemingway, the master of the short story, believed he could beat Tolstoy over ...

One of the more unexpected consequences of Brexit was the closure of a small museum in south London dedicated to the life of Natsume Soseki. As one of Japan’s most revered writers, the centenary of ...

Jiro Taniguchi, a legend in Japan's comic art of manga, died in Tokyo on Saturday at the age of 69, leaving behind an international following for his exquisite line drawing of scenes from everyday ...