New to 4 Extra. Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and, to mark the 93rd birthday of Japan’s greatest living ...

Shuntaro Tanikawa, who pioneered modern Japanese poetry, poignant but conversational in its divergence from haiku and other ...

At the height of the Olympics, parents were inspired by the athletes' names to baptize their children. After the success of ...

A perennial front-runner for the Nobel Prize in Literature, he was a revered figure in Japan, not just in literary circles ...

TOKYO — Shuntaro Tanikawa, who pioneered modern Japanese poetry, poignant but conversational in its divergence from haiku and other traditions, has died. He was 92. Tanikawa, who translated the ...

BEIJING--Citizens here are praising a Chinese poem written on relief supply boxes sent from Japan as a sign of heartfelt support for China in its struggle to cope with the deadly coronavirus. The ...

a literary translator who is currently translating all the poems from the "Manyoshu" into English. 02:24 Many poems in the "Manyoshu" describe the plight of people at the mercy of the powerful ...