Past Events
Past event notices are listed here in chronological order. Detailed summaries or reports of most past events have been published in the SWET Newsletter between February 1981 until April 2012; for these older events, check the Newsletter Archive.
Date: Saturday, April 20, 2014
Time: 2:00–4:00 p.m.
Place: Kita Kamakura, less than a minute from the station. Address to be provided.
Host: Bruce Smith (see member profile here)
Capacity: 15 (on first-come basis)
For details and directions please...
Date: Friday, April 19 (US); April 20 (Japan), 2024
Time: 7:00–9:30 p.m. EDT; 8:00 a.m. JST
Moderator: Mac Gill
Join us for a casual virtual meet-up organized around the EDT time zone for networking among wordsmiths in North America in particular. We'll begin with...
Leader: Ruth P. Stevens
Date: March 29 (Fri)
Time: 4:00–6:00 p.m.
Place: Gulliver Room, Book House Café, Kitazawa Bldg., Jimbocho. See the cafe website at http://bookhousecafe.jp/ (in Japanese) for maps. Come out from the Jimbocho subway at exit A1, turn right, and walk...
Date: Tuesday, March 12, 2024, with subsequent sessions planned for the first Tuesday of the month: April 2, May 7, June 4, July 2, August 6…
Time: 8:00-9:00 p.m. JST
Moderator: Daniel Morales
Join us for a casual virtual meet-up to...
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Speaker: Diane Hawley Nagatomo
Moderator: Louise George Kittaka
Date: Saturday, February 24, 2024
Time: 10:00 a.m.–12:00 noon JST (Zoom opens at 9:30 a.m. for pre-meeting visiting)
Drawing on a career that spans more than 30 years in Japan, Diane Hawley Nagatomo shared her experiences...
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Speaker: David Joiner
Moderator: Lisa Wilcut
Date: Saturday, November 18, 2023
David Joiner is the author of Lotusland (Guernica Editions, 2015), set in Vietnam, and Kanazawa (Stone Bridge Press, 2022) and The Heron Catchers (forthcoming from SBP, November 2023), both set in Japan....
Friday, September 15, 2023 (Japan); Thursday, September 14 (North America)
Hosts: Ruth Stevens and Lynne E. Riggs
Time: 9:00 a.m.–11:00 JST; 8:00 p.m. EDT; 5:00 p.m. PDT
Advance registration (required): https://bit.ly/3LbPkvH
How did a young person in 1970s...
Speaker: Dr. Peter Yanase, project researcher, Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties (Nabunken)
Date: Saturday, July 22, 2023
Time: 10:00 a.m.–12:00 noon JST (Zoom opens at 9:30 for pre-meeting visiting)
Advance registration (required): https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIoduihqj0uEtbJIPsPuiEeUGae0C8egZtm
A Japanologist with particular interest in philosophy of...
