"The Tale of Genji" will be broadcast on Tuesday May 5th on CBC at 9pm. You can listen to it online at http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/. The Tale of Genji, considered as the world’s first novel, is a classic work of Japanese literature in the early eleventh… more »

America, Asia and the West: Edward S Morse (1838-1925) devoted much of his life to documenting daily life in Japan before it was transformed by Western modernization. In addition to preserving the household records of a samurai family and many accounts… more »