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Higashino mystery misses 2012 Edgar award for best novel

Japanese author Keigo Higashino's novel, ''The Devotion of Suspect X,'' has missed out on the 2012 Edgar Allan Poe Award for best novel, as the award went to ''Gone'' by Mo Hayder, according to an...

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Kawabata unpublished adaptation of short novel is about father's love

A neglected manuscript by the late Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata turns out to be an unpublished novella adapted from a Hungarian play. The 22 handwritten pages dating from the 1920s had been kept at...

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Fujitsu Develops Novel Technologies to Protect Sensor Data Privacy, from...

Fujitsu Laboratories Limited has developed technologies that protect the privacy of sensor data—such as data from intelligent home appliances and location data—starting from the data collection stage...

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NEWS Kato Shigeaki to release his 2nd novel

NEWS member Kato Shigeaki, who made his novelist debut with “Pink to Gray” back in January, will be releasing his second novel titled “Senkou Scramble” on March 1st in 2013.

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Fantasy novel 'RDG' adapted into anime series, sparking hopes of tourism revival

A modern fantasy novel series set amid the Kumano Kodo ancient pilgrimage routes and other historical spots is being adapted into an animated TV series scheduled to premiere in spring. The animated...

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Early novel by Nobel laureate Kawabata identified

A serialized story that appeared in a southwestern Japan newspaper in the 1920s has been confirmed as an early novel by Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972), a researcher said Sunday.

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Haruki Murakami's new novel

A man shows the new novel of acclaimed Japanese author Haruki Murakami on the shelf of Tsutaya bookstore in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on the evening of April 11, 2013, before the book titled "Shikisaiwo...

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New Haruki Murakami novel creates surge in classical music sales

Literary giant Haruki Murakami can sell more than just books. Fans, who snapped up 1 million copies of his new novel in the first week alone, have also created a surge in demand for a classical music...

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2ch novel Fuuzoku Ittara Jinsei Kawatta www to be adapted into a movie

A pure love story with the title "Fuuzoku Ittara Jinsei Kawatta www" was posted on 2ch back in 2011. The story became a huge hit thanks to it being hyped tremendously on social platforms such as Twitter.

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Sony working on novel, high-end lens + sensor attachment for Xperia devices

Sony is working on a novel new accessory for their Xperia line of smartphones, which includes a high-quality lens and sensor combination – the same combination that is used by the award-winning Sony...

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Toshiba achieves world first with successful operation of novel Combustor for...

Toshiba today announced the successful testing of a first-of-its-kind combustor to be used in a breakthrough thermal power generation system that produces low-cost electricity and little-to-no air...

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Drafts of novel by Sakunosuke Oda turn up 100 years after author's birth

Drafts of the novel "Meoto Zenzai" by the late author Sakunosuke Oda (1913-47) have been newly discovered, shedding light on the process by which he produced the work, the Osaka Museum of History...

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Uzbek translates novel to keep friends with Japan

A young woman from Uzbekistan has published the first translation in her native language of a famous Japanese novel, inspired by her late grandfather's wish to deepen the friendship between the two...

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Matsuoka Keisuke's mystery novel to get a live-action film adaptation...

Matsuoka Keisuke's popular mystery "Banno Kanteishi Q no Jikenbo (Case Files of All-Round Appraiser Q)" series will be getting a live-action film adaptation starring Ayase Haruka and Matsuzaka Tori. 

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Arashi's Aiba Masaki to star in a live-action film adaptation of Nakamura...

Arashi member Aiba Masaki will star in a movie "MIRACLE Debikuro-kun no Koi to Mahou" that is set for release sometime in fall 2014. This will mark Aiba's first leading role.

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SABU teams up with Office Kitano to adapt his own debut novel

The next film project of director SABU (Bunny Drop, Miss ZOMBIE) will be an adaptation of his own debut novel Ten no Chasuke. The film will be jointly distributed by Office Kitano and Shochiku, with...

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War story told by 95-year-old Battle of Iwo Jima veteran becomes novel

Sixty-nine years after the Battle of Iwo Jima, one of the few surviving veterans from that time has opened up and spoken to a writer about his experience on the island. The writer spent a year to adapt...

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University of Tokyo's RCAST, Fujitsu, and Kowa Successfully Generate a Novel...

The University of Tokyo's Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), Fujitsu Limited, and Kowa Company, Ltd. today announced that they have used IT-based drug discovery technology to...

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Shinjuku Station becomes stage for Haruki Murakami's latest novel

The Shinjuku district in Tokyo, which plays a starring role in Haruki Murakami’s latest work to be translated in English, “Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage,” certainly has a...

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NEWS member Kato Shigeaki's novel to be adapted into film

NEWS member Kato Shigeaki's (27) first novel 'Pink and Grey' will be adopted into film, with Hey! Say! JUMP's Nakajima Yuto (21) starring as the lead.

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Horror of 1945 Tokyo air raids portrayed in Japanese novel written by American

An American born decades after World War II has released a novel -- in Japanese -- about the firebombing of Tokyo by the United States Army Air Forces that killed some 100,000 people, just months...

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Publisher finds images of Tanizaki notes used to compose novel

A publisher said Thursday it has found 255 images on photographic paper of notes made in the 1930s by Japanese novelist Junichiro Tanizaki (1886-1965).

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Development of Novel Sensing Materials and Chemical Sensors with Broad...

Suzuki & Citterio Laboratory is part of the Department of Applied Chemistry in the Faculty of Science and Technology at Keio University and focused on research into developing new sensing materials...

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