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June 6, 2013
Artscape Japan June 2013 Issue Out
The June 2013 issue of Artscape Japan is available on the Artscape website.
This month's issue features the following articles:
FOCUS Fine Prints: Kumi Sugai and Takesada Matsutani at the Ashiya City Museum of Art & History by Christopher Stephens
FOCUS Space-Time Continuums by Kenichi Sawaki at the Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo by Susan Rogers Chikuba
HERE/THERE That Was the Year That Was: Japanese Photography... more
May 19, 2013
Holly Thompson Book Birthday
SWET member Holly Thompson celebrated the book birthday of her new YA novel, The Language Inside, on May 14, 2013. This is Thompson's fourth book of fiction, following another young adult novel in verse: Orchards (2012), winner of the APALA Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature.
The Language Inside is about Emma Karas, raised in Japan, the country she calls home. But... more
May 16, 2013
Suzanne Kamata’s Gadget Girl Wins Major Book Prize
SWET member Susanne Kamata's young adult novel, Gadget Girl: The Art of Being Invisible, was recently awarded the Grand Prize at the 2013 Paris Book Festival. The book also won the top prize in the Young Adult division. Kamata will receive $1500 cash and a flight to Paris where she will be honored at a private reception at the... more
April 25, 2013
Fine Line Press Book Picnic: Tokyo
Fine Line Press: New Writers, Lyrical Stories is holding a Book Picnic in Yoyogi Park from 12 noon on Sunday, May 26, 2013. Graham Bathgate, the publisher, will be there along with some of his authors, including Mary King author of Japan on Foot (foreword by Donald Richie), a book about the 7,500-km walk she made through Japan. Mary King... more
April 12, 2013
Good Reading for Wordsmiths
We’ve come a long way, wordsmiths, from 1962, and English just keeps going on changing.
Good reading about the word time warp in the article, "A half-century in language change" at the Economist on April 8, 2013.
Thanks to Julie Kuma for the tip.
And... more
April 8, 2013
Artscape Japan April 2013 Issue Out
The April 2013 issue of Artscape Japan is available on the Artscape website. This month, with visitors to Japan from overseas in mind, Artscape Japan introduced a new gallery space in the vibrant Shibuya district of Tokyo, and two museums in Sakura City, close to Narita Airport:
FOCUS Tokyo's New Gallery Row: Creative Space 8/ in Hikarie by Lucy Birmingham
FOCUS "Blacks":... more