FUKUOKA -- A Japanese toilet manufacturer has awarded the grand prize in its toilet-related senryu poetry contest to an insightful work depicting a once dependent child growing up. Senryu is a ...

This contest is inspired by WelchM (Michael Dylan Welch), a poet and haiku scholar whom your word-game hosts met in the Writers' Club on AOL. He is the editor of Woodnotes, a quarterly haiku and ...

Shelves for rice are seen almost empty at a supermarket in Tokyo's Nerima Ward due to shortages of the staple, on Aug. 31, 2024. (Mainichi/Yuki Miyatake) TOKYO -- The Dai-Ichi Life Insurance Co. on ...

An annual contest for senryu, or traditional Japanese short poetry, in Tottori Prefecture came to an end this month after 20 years due to suspicion some of the participants might have used artificial ...

TOKYO -- The Dai-Ichi Life Insurance Co. on Jan. 30 announced the top 100 poems from its "Saratto Ikku!" senryu contest, with ...