Osamu Dazai’s bleak prose was matched only by his own misery The Japanese writer’s short-story collection “No One Knows” shows why he was the master of melancholy. February 7, 2025 ...

The author Osamu Dazai committed suicide — several times. The first was on a cold December night in 1929, just before his school exams. But the overdose of sleeping pills he took was not enough ...

The Japanese novelist’s dark-hearted comedies are at once unhinged and brilliant. Osamu Dazai, 1924. Where to begin the story? It’s tempting to start at the end—on the morning of Osamu Dazai ...

The Japanese novelist Osamu Dazai wrote, better than almost anyone, about the thin line between isolation and belonging. By Jane Yong Kim. Illustration by The Atlantic. July 6, 2023.

Osamu Dazai, however, was one such figure who didn't fit the saint template. Major Japanese cultural figures often become subjects of films when big birth or death anniversaries roll around.