Author Sao Ichikawa rode to the podium on an electric-powered wheelchair to receive the prestigious Akutagawa Prize for literature. “I am extremely happy that I can stand here,” the 43-year-old told a ...

Aki Asahina, a part-time doctor who won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize for literature on July 17, confessed that he never read novels and never intended to become a writer. Nearly 10 years ago, when ...

The selection committee for the Akutagawa and Naoki literary awards announced Wednesday that no works would receive the awards this time — for the first time in 27 years. Awarded biannually in January ...

Bungo Stray Dogs is filled with a variety of fantastic characters, but it seems that fans can’t stop wondering how tall Ryūnosuke Akutagawa is. Let’s dive in and find out how tall this character ...

Bungo Stray Dogs season 5 episode 3 left fans with a devastating end, as despite Atsushi and Akutagawa's perfectly executed ambush, they were left at a loss. While the pair did manage to defeat Kamui ...

Japan’s most famous literary prizes are the Akutagawa Prize, generally awarded to writers yet to break through, and the Naoki Prize for more established authors. Both were established at the ...

Ryunosuke Akutagawa is probably best known outside Japan for "Rashomon" but "Kappa" is considered to be his masterpiece by fans and scholars. Narrated by a "mental patient" and introduced as a tale ...

A program focusing on a 1921 journey by the Japanese writer Akutagawa Ryūnosuke sheds new light on China—and the insights the author brought back to Japan almost a century ago. During the early ...

After Japanese author Rie Kudan won one of the country’s most prestigious literary awards, she admitted she’d had help from an unusual source — ChatGPT. “I plan to continue to profit from the use of ...