Book Breaks

Wednesday, September 19, 2018, 18:15 - 20:30 　　　　　　　　　　​​​​​​​   This book, published in paperback in May 2018 by Kobunsha Co. in Japanese, tells the story of Kakuei Tanaka (1918-1993), the most popular and controversial politician in postwar Japan. Author and investigative journalist Eiichiro Tokumoto painstakingly researched declassified...

Thursday, September 06, 2018, 18:15 - 20:30             ​​​​​​​                         Yoichiro Sato           Hidekazu Sakai     The so-called lost two decades of Japan’s economic power since the early 1990s have...

Wednesday, July 18, 2018, 18:15 - 20:30    ​​​​​​​ Karen Ann Takizawa   In this book, the post-war generation looks back on the experiences of two extended family members who were Prisoners of War (POWs) on opposite sides of the conflict in World War II. One was a...

Monday, June 11, 2018, 18:15 - 20:30               ​​​​​​​                    The Naked World is volume two in dystopian science fiction (SF) trilogy the Jubilee Cycle, which is set in a near future Tokyo where all actions—from blinking...

Tuesday, May 22, 2018, 18:15 - 20:30   ​​​​​​​  John Boyd                    The idea for Killing Time in Tokyo (fiction) came about after John Boyd, the author, was approached by a yakuza in a Yokohama pub many years ago. Both the man...

Wednesday, April 11, 2018, 18:15 - 20:30      ​​​​​​​ Damian Flanagan     Damian Flanagan presents: “An Evening with Yukio Mishima.”   He’s back, for one night only! Join us for a celebration of literary great Yukio Mishima (1925-70) as writer and critic Flanagan discusses his recent...

Wednesday, April 10, 2019, 18:15 - 20:30                 ​​​​​​​     Tokyo is a city that defies the orthodox and conventional, demanding a sensitive approach to particular occurrences in the smaller scale. Given its changing nature, urban scholars often find it...

Tuesday, March 06, 2018, 18:15 - 20:30     ​​​​​​​  Richard Lloyd Parry Asia Editor of The Times     No one who was alive at the time will forget March 11, 2011, when a massive earthquake sent a 40-metre high tsunami smashing into the coast of north-east Japan....

Tuesday, February 20, 2018, 18:15 - 20:30     ​​​​​​​   Professor Philip Seaton of Hokkaido University   “Contents tourism” is probably not a familiar term to many, but most people these days will have seen stories about the phenomenon and been contents tourists themselves. “Contents” are the...

Tuesday, January 23, 2018, 18:15 - 20:30           Kazuo Abiko　 （我孫子和夫）　 　　　　　　　　　   Ko Yamaguchi (山口光）   The environment surrounding news media has changed drastically over the past two decades, primarily due to rapid advancement of information technology. The hardest-hit might be the newspaper...