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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The popular Japanese novelist Dazai Osamu (1909–48) spent part of his childhood in a large mansion with an irimoya hip-and-gable style roof built by his wealthy landlord father, Tsushima Gen’emon.