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February 20, 2014
Robert Whiting: Anecdotes from Four Decades as a Writer
Date: March 17, 2014 (Monday) Time: 7:00-9:00 p.m. (socializing 6:00-7:00 p.m.) Fee: ¥1,000 for SWET members; 1,500 for non members Place: Wesley Center, Room 205
Robert Whiting, veteran author of "The Chrysanthemum and the Bat" (1977), "You Gotta Have Wa" (1989), "Tokyo Underworld" (1999), and "The Meaning of Ichiro" (2004), will be sitting down with SWET for an impromptu talk and discussion about his... more
February 10, 2014
Tokyo International Literary Festival 2014
The Tokyo International Literary Festival 2014 will run from February 28 (Fri.) to March 9 (Sun.) with many events of great interest. While last year the focus was mainly on Japanese and Western writers, this time authors from Europe and Asia will also be participating. Other plans include the celebration of the release of Monkey Business 4, as well as... more
February 5, 2014
February 2014 Issue of Artscape Now Out
The latest issue of this informative journal is now out and can be accessed at Artscape Japan.
In addition to this month's new articles, detailed below, Artscape Japan is happy to welcome a new contributor to their FOCUS section, Alice Gordenker.
FOCUS All Things Adorable: "Kawaii" Art at the Yamatane Museum, by Alice Gordenker
FOCUS Nihonga in a Gorgeous Setting: The Gyokudo Art Museum, by Michael Pronko
HERE/THERE When... more
January 6, 2014
Kyoto Journal Reviews Judith Clancy’s Machiya Restaurant Guide
The Kyoto Journal's Michael Lambe has just presented a restaurant guide by Judith Clancy, titled Kyoto Machiya Restaurant Guide: Affordable Dining in Traditional Townhouse Spaces. For the in-depth story of how the book came into being, see the three-part SWET interview with the author, publisher, and photographer here.
The book outlines the Machiya area's many fine dining establishments against the backdrop of the charm... more
December 24, 2013
International Thriller Japantown Receives Warm Welcome
When Barry Lancet launched the first in what he envisioned as a mystery/thriller series exploring the high culture and low underbelly of Japan, he had no idea what to expect. By the first week of publication, Japantown was scheduled for a fourth printing and had been optioned for a TV series by J. J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions of
December 4, 2013
December 2013 Issue of Artscape Japan Now Out
Artscape Japan has just announced that their December 2013 issue is now out and can be accessed at http://www.dnp.co.jp/artscape/eng/.
This month's issue features these new articles:
FOCUS Your Portrait: A Tetsumi Kudo Retrospective, by Christopher Stephens
FOCUS
Revisiting Morimura, Rembrandt, and the Hara Museum, by Lucy Birmingham
HERE/THERE The Ishikawa: Not Your Standard-Issue Prefectural Museum, by Alan Gleason
The PICKS section offers a monthly selection of 20 short translated reviews, by... more