News
January 31, 2013
Kyoto Journal is back!
After a two-year hiatus (apart from publishing Fresh Currents: Japan’s Flow from a Nuclear Past to a Renewable Future since June 2012), Kyoto Journal has February 9, 2013 as the date for the re-launch of its entirely redesigned website and returned to regularly-scheduled publishing as a mostly digital quarterly publication, with the imminent release of KJ 76 and 77, both... more
January 14, 2013
Frederik Schodt Interview in the Japan Times
Edan Corkill, in the Japan Times January 6, 2013, has an interview with Frederik I. Schodt "Japan's pop culture ambassador to the world".
“I've always been interested in what you might call 'lost histories' — people who fell through the cracks, eccentric characters who in some unusual way contributed to early communication between America and Japan. That is the territory I... more
January 6, 2013
SWET 2013 New Year’s Party (Tokyo)
Featuring dishes from Japanese Farm Food and a talk by author Nancy Singleton Hachisu
Date: January 25, 2013 (Friday)
Time: 6:30-9:00 p.m.
Place: Wesley Center (6-10-7 Minami Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo Map); Room 205
Fee: ¥3,000 per person members and non-members (drinks not included; please bring your own beverage of choice)
**Reservations required** by January 22: info[at]swet.jp; fax: 03-3430-1740
For further information write to SWET Events.
Come enjoy... more
December 18, 2012
Dauntless Champion of Japan’s Heritage, Good Walks, and Craftsmanship: Sumiko Enbutsu
Treasures of Tokyo, such as the 95-year-old Yasuda House and the landscape of Ueno Park's Shinobazu Pond, must be preserved, Sumiko Enbutsu believes, and, according to an article in the Japan Times on December 8th, she has played an energetic part in saving them. And when the Tohoku Earthquake and tsunami of 2011 washed away slate tiles awaiting delivery to... more
November 12, 2012
Books from Japan website launched by J-Lit Center
The J-Lit Center, the NPO founded in 2004 for the purpose of introducing Japanese literature overseas, and supervisor of the Japanese Literature Publishing Project (Agency for Cultural Affairs) from 2002 to 2009, has launched an ambitious new English-language website that introduces the best recent works of Japanese fiction, nonfiction, and children's and young adult literature to readers, editors and publishers... more
October 26, 2012
Frederik L. Schodt Introduces His Latest Book
Writer, translator, conference interpreter--always highly entertaining speaker--and author of numerous books about popular and esoteric culture Frederik L. Schodt will introduce his latest book, Professor Risley and the Imperial Japanese Troupe, at two events in November:
"Book Break" at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan on November 6 (Tuesday), 2012. Reservations are required.
JAT event November 10 (Saturday), 2012 “How an American Acrobat... more