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Actor Takakura's 'swan song' in monthly magazine

TOKYO, Japan - "Ken Takakura's final personal note," the last writing by the deceased movie star, is published in the New Year issue of "Bungeishunju" monthly magazine on Dec. 9, 2014, along with his manuscript (foreground) sent to publisher Bungeishunju Ltd. on Nov. 10, the day he died at 83 at a Tokyo hospital.

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Murakami's new short story collection

TOKYO, Japan - Copies of Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami's latest work, a collection of short stories entitled "Onna no Inai Otokotachi" -- which can be translated as "Men Without Women" -- are displayed at Sanseido bookstore in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward after going on sale on the morning of April 18, 2014. Publisher Bungeishunju Ltd. said 300,000 copies have already been printed due partly to the strength of pre-orders.

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Murakami's new short story collection

TOKYO, Japan - Copies of Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami's latest work, a collection of short stories entitled "Onna no Inai Otokotachi" -- which can be translated as "Men Without Women" -- are piled up at Sanseido bookstore in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward soon after going on sale on the morning of April 18, 2014. Publisher Bungeishunju Ltd. said 300,000 copies have already been printed due partly to the strength of pre-orders.

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Murakami's new short story collection

TOKYO, Japan - A man holds a copy of Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami's latest work, a collection of short stories entitled "Onna no Inai Otokotachi" -- which can be translated as "Men Without Women" -- at Sanseido bookstore in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward soon after going on sale on the morning of April 18, 2014. Publisher Bungeishunju Ltd. said 300,000 copies have already been printed due partly to the strength of pre-orders.

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Murakami's new short story collection

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a copy of Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami's latest work, a collection of short stories entitled "Onna no Inai Otokotachi" -- which can be translated as "Men Without Women" -- at the Kinokuniya bookstore in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in the early hours of April 18, 2014, soon after its release at midnight. Publisher Bungeishunju Ltd. said 300,000 copies have already been printed due partly to the strength of pre-orders.

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Murakami's new short story collection

TOKYO, Japan - Women hold copies of Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami's latest work, a collection of short stories entitled "Onna no Inai Otokotachi" -- which can be translated as "Men Without Women" -- at the Kinokuniya bookstore in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in the early hours of April 18, 2014, soon after its release at midnight. Publisher Bungeishunju Ltd. said 300,000 copies have already been printed due partly to the strength of pre-orders.

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Murakami's new short story collection

TOKYO, Japan - Women hold copies of Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami's latest work, a collection of short stories entitled "Onna no Inai Otokotachi" -- which can be translated as "Men Without Women" -- at the Kinokuniya bookstore in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in the early hours of April 18, 2014, soon after its release at midnight. Publisher Bungeishunju Ltd. said 300,000 copies have already been printed due partly to the strength of pre-orders.

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Anne Frank's diary vandalized in Tokyo libraries

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows the front cover of the Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, published by Japan's Bungeishunju Ltd. Pages in more than 200 copies of the book and related books have been ripped out for unknown reasons at libraries in Tokyo, an official of the Japan Library Association said Feb. 20, 2014.

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Murakami responds to Hokkaido town's protest

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows novelist Haruki Murakami. Responding to a protest by a Hokkaido town against his description of the town in a story serialized in a monthly magazine, Murakami said Feb. 7, 2014, he will use a different name when the story comes out in book form. In the story titled "Drive My Car" in the December issue of the Bungeishunju magazine, the main character said when he saw a female driver from Nakatonbetsu throw a burning cigarette from her car that everyone was doing the same thing on a routine basis.

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Haruki Murakami's latest novel hits 1 mil. circulation

TOKYO, Japan - Copies of Japanese author Haruki Murakami's newest novel, "Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage," are displayed in a bookstore in Tokyo on April 18, 2013. Publisher Bungeishunju Ltd. said the same day that 1 million copies of the book are now in circulation since its release on April 12.

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Haruki Murakami's latest novel hits 1 mil. circulation

TOKYO, Japan - Copies of Japanese author Haruki Murakami's newest novel, "Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage," are displayed in a bookstore in Tokyo on April 18, 2013. Publisher Bungeishunju Ltd. said the same day that 1 million copies of the book are now in circulation since its release on April 12.

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Weekly on Tanaka's daughter banned, publisher appeals

TOKYO, Japan - A shopkeeper is about to remove copies of weekly magazine Shukan Bunshun on March 17 following a Tokyo District Court decision to ban publication of its story about the divorce of former Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka's daughter. Tokyo-based publisher Bungeishunju Ltd. lodged an objection against the decision later in the day.

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Japanese publisher Bungeishunju

File photo taken March 26, 2019, shows an office building of Japanese publisher Bungeishunju Ltd. in Tokyo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese publisher Bungeishunju

File photo taken March 26, 2019, shows a signboard of Japanese publisher Bungeishunju Ltd. in Tokyo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Copies of prize-winning novel "Hibana" to top 2 mil.

Photo shows Japanese comedian Naoki Matayoshi. Publisher Bungeishunju Ltd. said Aug. 4, 2015, it will print 400,000 more copies of Matayoshi's novel "Hibana" (Spark), bringing the total number of copies above the 2 million mark amid robust sales after it won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize in the previous month. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Weekly on Tanaka's daughter banned, publisher appeals

TOKYO, Japan - A shopkeeper is about to remove copies of weekly magazine Shukan Bunshun on March 17 following a Tokyo District Court decision to ban publication of its story about the divorce of former Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka's daughter. Tokyo-based publisher Bungeishunju Ltd. lodged an objection against the decision later in the day. (Kyodo)