Megumin, Hori, Banba, and Yoichi are a few of the characters who resemble Dazai to various extents. A member of the Armed Detective Agency and an ex-Port Mafia member, Osamu Dazai is an eccentric ...

MUTSUO BANBA’s rice farm in Ishikawa prefecture, on the north-west coast of Japan’s main island, is a mosaic of plots, many separated by land belonging to others. In the season, Mr Banba ...

In 1903, the editors of Banba awarded their prize for a new play to Muinntear Chillmhuire nó Bó i bPoll (The people of Cillmhuire, or a cow in a hole) by Séamus Ó Dubhghaill (Beirt Fhear).