Book Breaks

              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                                                                ...

Tuesday, January 22, 2019, 18:15 - 20:30   ​​​​​​​                   On Tuesday, January 22, 2019, David Peace will be reading from and discussing his latest novel Patient X: the Case-Book of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, published by Faber & Faber (UK) and...

Wednesday, December 05, 2018, 18:15 - 20:30       ​​​​​​​                           Takashi Inoue’s new book Public Relations in Hyper-Globalization seeks to help the next generation of global leaders to see more clearly the new environment...

Wednesday, November 14, 2018, 18:15 - 20:30                                                                             ​​​​​​​     This...

Wednesday, October 17, 2018, 18:15 - 20:30            ​​​​​​​     Gavan McCormack will introduce his new bookThe State of the Japanese State which casts a cold eye over the contemporary Abe state, especially the relationship with the United States, suggesting that the...

Thursday, October 04, 2018, 18:15 - 20:30 ​​​​​​​    Book Break "Masaaki Hatsumi: Dojo Giga | Heaven (『初見良昭 道場戲画 天』) " By Masaaki Hatsumi Thursday, October 4, 2018 from 6:15 pm to 8:30 pm The book Masaaki Hatsumi: Dojo Giga | Heaven, published in September 2018, features...

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...