For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve contributed to our pages.

Nineteenth Century Charitable Association event features writer Nancy Matsumoto and the story of her poet grandparents who ...

Each year, the Japanese Imperial family hosts an annual celebration of poetry at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. This year, as they have in years previous, Emperor Nahrutio, Empress Masako, and Princess ...

(76) I can hear the bowstrings twang on the brave men’s leather armbands as the warrior’s general stands the shields for drill. (147) Turning to gaze upon the fields of heaven, I see my Lord’s long ...

TOKYO (AP) — A poem about the Japanese coastline devastated by last year's earthquake and tsunami was among the winners in the annual Imperial Palace poetry contest and was read as part of a solemn ...

[All links lead to Japanese-language pages unless otherwise noted.] Japanese Twitter users recently peppered the site with tweets about childcare. But it wasn't about how fewer Japanese workers are ...

Striking a match / momentarily / I see the foggy ocean – / is there a motherland / I can dedicate myself to? [ The translation of above quote is by Ms. Kozue Uzawa and Ms. Amelia Fielden cited from ...