Book Breaks

                          Thomas Lockley     Warrior. Samurai. Legend. African Samurai, a non-fiction published this April by Hanover Square Press, tells the remarkable life of the Japanese history's first foreign-born samurai, and his...

  It's Saturday Night Live Ami & The Joyful Trio July 27, 2019 18:30 - 21:00 Kiyoko Ami returns for a second visit to the FCCJ after a popular reception of her unique first performance. Ami is a jazz vibraphone player who performs in Japan...

  The post-Cold War era has been difficult for Japan. A country once heralded for evolving a superior form of capitalism and seemingly ready to surpass the United States as the world’s largest economy lost its way in the early 1990s and has never regained...

                    Eiji Oguma（小熊英二） The Oral History of a Japanese Soldier in Manchuria https://apjjf.org/2018/19/Oguma.html   The book Return from Siberia is the account of the life of Oguma Kenji by his son, and its uniqueness is that...

    ​​​​​​​                 Eiji Oguma（小熊英二）   The Library Committee regrets to announce that the above planned event has been postponed until further notice. We apologize for any inconvenience and thank you for your understanding. FCCJ Library Committee...

Tuesday, April 23, 2019, 18:15 - 20:30   ​​​​​​​                    Masahide Shibusawa   The book Private Diplomacy of Shibusawa Eiichi offers an account of the last thirty years of Eiichi’s life, which were dedicated to the betterment of US-Japan relations....

                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 hard to grasp a holistic reading of...

              In Kyudo (弓道＝Japanese archery), there is a phrase “seisha hicchu (正射必中)”, which means that if you do things correctly, you will hit the target. Based on that proverb, Jérôme Chouchan,...

             The Unmaking of an American is the author’s engaging and entertaining cross-cultural memoir spanning decades of dramatic history on four continents. Acclaimed author, playwright, translator, journalist, theater and film director, translator and journalist, Roger Pulvers explores the nature of...

                 Alan Booth   Timothy Harris                                                                ...