TOKYO (AFP) – Japanese police on Friday arrested a man who left a "haiku" poem when he disappeared after five people were murdered in a tiny mountain village. Investigators found Kosei Homi, 63, ...

TOKYO (AFP) – Japanese police are Tuesday hunting for a haiku poet suspected of killing five people in a tiny mountain village. The five victims represent a third of the population of the hamlet in ...

First the ground shook, then the sea swallowed the land. Fires raged, lights went out, invisible menaces seeped into the air, the water, the soil. Tears flowed and headlines blared tales of tragedy, ...

The poetics of the lone glove even finds a home beyond formal verse in pop music. In their 1975 hit “Toshishita no Otokonoko” ...

Police in Japan are hunting a poetry-loving serial killer suspected of killing five people in a tiny mountain village. A murder investigation was launched after the bodies of elderly victims in their ...

The history of haiku is as much a history of the Japanese cultural atmosphere as it is a genre of poetry, and the Pakistan Haiku Society (PHS) has played an extremely significant role in the promotion ...