The first complete new translation for 25 years of the acknowledged masterpiece of Japanese literature. Lady Murasaki's great 11th century novel is a beautifully crafted story of love, betrayal and death at the Imperial Court. At the core of this epi...

"Kawaii!", roughly meaning "cute", it's a word you'll hear everywhere in Japan, where anything can be cute, from food to aeroplanes, fashion, hotels and eeven bus shelters. But why do the Japanese love adorable things so much? And where did this uniq...

For the first time ever in digital form, the two Batman serials of 1943 and 1949 are together, in one book, analyzed side-by-side. If you want to know the source of the legendary 1966 TV show's inspiration, this is the book for you. 1943 sees Lewis W...

This is a collection of 45 Tokyo street fashion portraits from Japan's premier fanzine. Fruits was established in 1994, by photographer Shoich Aoki, initially as a project to document the growing explosion in street fashion within the suburbs of Toky...

These two works on life's fleeting pleasures are by Buddhist monks from medieval Japan, but each shows a different world-view. In the short memoir Hôjôki, Chômei recounts his decision to withdraw from worldly affairs and live as a hermit in a tiny hu...

Did you know that the Japanese have a word to express the way sunlight filters through the leaves of trees? Or that there's a Swedish word that means a traveller's particular sense of anticipation before a trip? Lost in Translation brings the nuanced...