Book Breaks

The speakers will be Roland Kelts and Joseph Chou. The Hollywood Reporter calls Japanese animation (anime) “the world’s most bankable and Covid-resistant form of popular entertainment.” What’s behind anime’s explosive global appeal, and why is Hollywood so invested? Now Japan’s premier export, anime reaches massive ...

When Lawrence Repeta first took a spectator’s seat in Tokyo District Court in 1982, he was shocked to learn that the court prohibited spectators from taking notes during public hearings. His lawsuit resulted in a 1989 Supreme Court judgment that overturned a longstanding prohibition on ...

The library committee will host an evening with three top translators from Japanese to English who will examine the deeper nuances of language in literature. The authors will discuss their personal journeys through their work to bring some of Japan’s most loved authors to a ...

The speakers will be Yunshin Hong and Robert Ricketts. Okinawa was the only Japanese prefecture to be invaded by US forces during the battle fought there in the spring of 1945. It was also the only part of Japan proper forced to accommodate a network ...

         The Tokyo Trial, 1946 to 1948, seen by many as victors’ justice, was a dark and painful episode in Japan’s immediate post-WWII history. In contrast to Germany with the Nuremberg Trials, Japan’s postwar politics never accepted the Tribunal’s verdicts. The government ...

In The Politics of International Marriage in Japan, Viktoriya Kim, Nelia Balgoa and Beverley Anne Yamamoto unravel the web of historical, governmental, and cultural influences on international couples and their children in Japan. The book, published by Rutgers University Press in the series “The ...

  Kamakura rose as the first samurai capital in the 12th century. Shogun Yoritomo chose for the seat of his military government a natural fortress far from the intrigues of the court in Kyoto. He summoned from the capital carpenters to build grand temples and ...