Book Breaks

After more than a decade of breathless hype, how did Bitcoin—supposedly the clean, liberating future of money—turn into a global engine of scams, cybercrime, and cold-blooded chaos? To answer that, we have to go where the story truly detonated: Japan. In The Devil Takes...

Book Break: Shoji Morimoto, Author of "Rental Person Who Does Nothing 『〈レンタルなんもしない人〉というサービスをはじめます。: スペックゼロでお金と仕事と人間関係をめぐって考えたこと』（森本祥司） 日本語の案内が英文の後に続きます。 The author, Shoji Morimoto, presents his book, Rental Person Who Does Nothing, that traces his experience of lending himself out ‘as someone who does nothing’—meaning he is available for “just...

In Brutalist Japan, photographer and writer Paul Tulett takes readers on a striking visual and written journey through more than 100 Brutalist buildings across the country—spanning from postwar civic landmarks to humble hair salons. With over 220 original photographs and 27,000 words of often...

The Speaker: Paul McCarthy   The Book Break will focus on the title story in a new anthology of short fiction by Yukio Mishima, published in January in honor of Mishima's birth centenary by Penguin Classics in the UK and Vintage Books in the US....

Hiroshima: The Last Witnesses and it Embers series companion volume -- Nagasaki: The Last Witnesses – are the result of nine years of personal interviews with Japanese, Korean, and Chinese Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors, onsite fieldwork, and both Japanese and American archival research by M.G....

The book is a memoir focusing on activities of the author in one particular year that is considered to be the most crucial in the history of Bangladesh: 1971. Monzurul Huq, a journalist from Bangladesh and a past president of the Club, joined the liberation...