ZENTSUJI, Kagawa -- A university in this western Japan city has set up a permanent bookshelf called the "Apple Shelf" in its ...

The sound of small voices yelling “konichiwa” – Japanese for hello – drifted out of the small children’s room in the University Park Library. Inside the room, colorful patchwork quilts hung on the ...

A "train seat" area has been introduced at Kami ikebukuro Library in Tokyo's Toshima Ward, which reopened on June 6 following ...

Statistics on libraries in Japan released by the Japan Library Association show that the collections at public libraries in 2017 totaled 442.82 million books, and that there were 691.47 million loans ...

The city of Nasushiobara has just got a new library and community centre courtesy of the dynamic Japanese architecture studio of Mari Ito, UAo. A geometric composition out of glass, metal and timber, ...