It often accompanies short clips displaying the cover and pages of Osamu Dazai’s novel NO LONGER HUMAN (New Directions, 177 pp., paperback, $12.95), a modernist classic of dissipated alienation ...

The Japanese novelist’s dark-hearted comedies are at once unhinged and brilliant. Osamu Dazai, 1924. Where to begin the story? It’s tempting to start at the end—on the morning of Osamu Dazai ...

The author Osamu Dazai committed suicide — several times. The first was on a cold December night in 1929, just before his school exams. But the overdose of sleeping pills he took was not enough ...

With the release of the Bungo Stray Dogs Season 5 finale, fans witnessed the return of fan-favorite anime character Osamu Dazai. Fans were led to believe that he died after getting shot in the ...

The events in his life mimic major moments in Dazai’s own, and the author’s death by suicide shortly before No Longer Human’s publication has contributed to its myth. But ultimately ...

As the musician Patti Smith once put it, Dazai “wrote at the pace of a dying man, yearning for … the solution to an unresolved equation.” With the new translation of the novel’s prequel ...

Osamu Dazai, however, was one such figure who didn't fit the saint template. Born in 1909 into a large, wealthy family in Aomori Prefecture, Dazai had a sheltered upbringing, though his mother was ...

A portrait drawn by literary giant Osamu Dazai (1909-1948) has gone on display for the first time since it was created more than 70 years ago. It is being exhibited at the Mitaka City Gallery of ...