Osamu Dazai, With Help From TikTok, Keeps Finding New Fans The enduring appeal of a midcentury Japanese novelist who wrote of alienation and suicide.

Troubled 20th century Japanese author Osamu Dazai has been reimagined in one Summer 2024 title, but why exactly does he keep coming up in anime?

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.

A portrait drawn by literary giant Osamu Dazai (1909-1948) has gone on display for the first time since it was created more than 70 years ago.

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 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 ...

2019 is the 110th anniversary of Dazai Osamu's birth. 'HUMAN LOST human disqualification' is produced in a form that reconstructs 'human disqualification' of Osamu Dazai. The teaser visuals are ...

Osamu Dazai, however, was one such figure who didn't fit the saint template. Born in 1909 into a large, wealthy family in Aomori Prefecture, Dazai had a sheltered upbringing, though his mother was ...