What image of Japan do you get when you look at various art forms, such as films, photographs, books, architecture, and ceramics? The inevitable answe...

Taiwan is an island that constantly reinvents itself. Earlier this spring, we presented three books highlighting the island's diversity. During this s...

The Chola Plates, currently in the possession of Leiden University, will be returned to India. This has been decided by the Executive Board. The resti...

Which language do you pass on to your child? Which songs did people from seventeenth-century Leiden sing? How do you play Trump's rhetorical game? Dur...

Portraits, encounters, domestic scenes, street views, and landscapes. The earliest photographs of Japan not only show the development of a new techniq...

Although Yosano Akiko died more than eighty years ago, the story of her life is being retold even today. What is it about her life and work that conti...

Amidst great interest from locals and visitors, Emperor Naruhito and King Willem-Alexander paid a visit to Leiden University on 18 June. In the Hortus...

Student Theses, the thesis repository of Leiden University, has been migrated to the new Alma Digital platform. Due to this modernisation, Student The...

Which roles did books have in prayer in the late Middle Ages? What did the interaction with these books by readers and users look like? And how can we...

With support of several companies, including Brill Publishers, Elsevier and private foundations, Leiden University Libraries (UBL) and the Scaliger In...

Leiden University has become a member of OpenAIRE, a European non-profit e-infrastructure organisation that supports open science. Leiden University L...

From towering mechanical heroes to city-destroying battles, giant robots have become one of the most iconic images in Japanese animation. On 28 April ...

Leiden University Libraries (UBL) recently issued a new collection policy plan, containing priorities for the coming years regarding the formation, ma...

Describing almost 1400 maps of Africa in three months. It’s no small task that student assistants Artemis Mantheakis and Beatriz Veiga have been worki...

From experimental essays to comfort reads, and from manga to court literature in verse: Japanese literature has it all.