TOKYO -- Public broadcaster NHK's AI-based announcer "News no Yomiko" will try her hand -- or algorithms -- at composing senryu poetry based on current events, it was announced on March 12. Yomiko ...

Here is a wonderful way to begin the celebration with Mother’s Day messages from Tinian in three languages. These haiku/senryu are from a series of poetry workshops I conducted in the 6th grade ...

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

It is tempting, though probably entirely incorrect, to think of the haiku (and its close relation, the senryu) as the Japanese equivalent of the sonnet. In both cases you are looking at concise verse ...

Eight Japanese men gathered at the Tamagawa Tei restaurant on First Street in downtown Yakima to recite their poems and judge the others. On this fall day in 1912, members of the Yakima Ameikai — ...

Conventional wisdom has it that the Japanese don't much go in for satire. But today's announcement of this year's winners in the salaryman senryu poetry contest suggests they have a perfectly ...

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 ...