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 ...

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 ...

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 ...