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Osamu Dazai. No Longer Human, The Setting Sun, Run, Melos! —His works overflow with the fragility of human weakness, with a delicacy that seems barely alive. It is as if each of his loves left behind a record of a heart sl...

On a moonlit night in Kyoto, the pale light brushed over the tiled rooftops.Down a narrow alley walked a lone monk, a gourd in his hand and a love letter hidden in his robe—his name was Ikkyū Sōjun. Known to many as the witty and mischie...

He was called the Hero of the Late Tokugawa Era — Sakamoto Ryoma. He forged the Satsuma–Choshu Alliance, advanced the restoration of imperial rule,and became a driving force behind Japan’s transformation into a modern nation. Yet the rea...

Around the turn of the 11th century, in the middle of the Heian period, poetry and love were woven into the fabric of daily life, like light and shadow dancing together. In this era, one female poet left her name in history through the p...