It often accompanies short clips displaying the cover and pages of Osamu Dazai’s novel NO LONGER HUMAN (New Directions, 177 pp., paperback, $12.95), a modernist classic of dissipated alienation ...

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. It is being exhibited at the Mitaka City Gallery of ...

With the release of the Bungo Stray Dogs Season 5 finale, fans witnessed the return of fan-favorite anime character Osamu Dazai. Fans were led to believe that he died after getting shot in the ...

No Longer Allowed in Another World episode 8: Osamu Dazai meets Esche, Yamada, and others at Toneriko The World Tree, as seen in No Longer Allowed in Another World episode 8 (Image via ...

As a celebrated author and son of Tsugaru himself, Dazai Osamu must have seemed the perfect choice for this 1944 volume in Oyama Shoten's series of books on regional diversity. But a few pages ...

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 ...

As the musician Patti Smith once put it, Dazai “wrote at the pace of a dying man, yearning for … the solution to an unresolved equation.” With the new translation of the novel’s prequel ...

Everyone knows Dazai Osamu, author of works like Run, Melos! and The Setting Sun. But few, I imagine, could name a single title by Kamei Katsuichirō. Both writers came from wealthy families in ...

Born in 1909 in Aomori prefecture, the scandalous writer Osamu Dazai, though little known in the Anglophone world, still has a cult-like following in Japan. In life, the decadent romantic was ...

The popular Japanese novelist Dazai Osamu (1909–48) spent part of his childhood in a large mansion with an irimoya hip-and-gable style roof built by his wealthy landlord father, Tsushima Gen’emon.