Book Breaks

  We all know now that climate change is very much "for real" – and the question on many people's lips is, can we slow the process down sufficiently or quickly enough to prevent a climate disaster, or is it too late? But there is...

                                              In Mobilizing Japanese Youth published by Cornell University Press in 2021, Christopher Gerteis examines how non-state institutions in Japan—left-wing radicals and right-wing...

Best-selling author and journalist Robert Whiting and Jake Adelstein are respected names in the not-so respected underworld of Japan. They will speak about their deep knowledge of Japan’s criminals, racketeers, hustlers, corrupt politicians, nine-fingered gangsters, sex, violence, or, as they call it, the sleaze of...