Author and CNNGo contributor La Carmina spends much of her time hopping across the globe, from her hometown of Vancouver to Los Angeles, New York City, Hong Kong and Tokyo, the latter being the focus ...

An 'onmyoji,' an expert on yin and yang, performs divination with counting rods in an Edo-period illustration. Kyoto University Library/Wikimedia “The Tale of Genji,” often called Japan’s first novel, ...

When Japanese and European fonts are used together in the same text, the Latin alphabet often looks smaller in comparison to Japanese type. To avoid this problem, the Tazugane Gothic typeface includes ...

IN LIGHT OF SHADOWS: More Gothic Tales, by Izumi Kyoka, translated and with essays by Charles Shiro Inouye. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2004, 180 pp., $16.00 (paper). The first (1993) ...

Way, way back in June last year we brought word about the minor localization issue that faced Japanese gothic horror visual novel The House in Fata Morgana. In short, it was suffering from a lack of ...