The New York Times - Theater Yukio Ninagawa, a Japanese theater director who fused elaborate Kabuki with Western realism to mount original, critically acclaimed productions of classic Greek and Shakespearean plays in Europe and the United States as well as in his own country, di Read more ... ed on May 12 in Tokyo. He was 80.

Los Angeles Times Books William Faulkner, Lawrence Weschler, Nathanael West, Yukio Mishima, and... Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Always surprising, David Bowie.

The Wall Street Journal Shin Kyung-sook, winner of the 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize, was accused by another local author of copying parts of “Patriotism” by late Japanese author Yukio Mishima in her short story “Legend.”

National Geographic Photo of the Day: "It is like an old Japanese painting," writes photographer Yukio Miki of this image of a weeping cherry tree on the grounds of the Imperial Palace in Kyoto, Japan.