Book Breaks

　　　　　　　　　　　 (英文の下に日本語の案内があります) Louis Armstrong: Satchmo’s Spirit Lives on Forever is the story of respected jazz musician Louis Armstrong and the musicians Yoshio and Keiko Toyama, who fell in love with his music. So much so that they moved to Louisiana to be close to the ...

　　　　　　　　　　 Veteran journalists Hans Greimel and William Sposato will speak about their recent book Collision Course – a fast-paced chronicle of the spectacular downfall of Carlos Ghosn, the legendary auto executive who saved Nissan only to be charged with multiple counts of financial misconduct during ...

                    Poisoning the Pacific reveals how US military operations have been contaminating Japan and neighboring countries with toxic substances, including plutonium, dioxin, and nerve agent. Hundreds of thousands of service members, their families, and residents have ...

               A Scotsman in provincial Japan, Iain Maloney, originally from Aberdeen, has lived in rural Gifu for five years. Together with his Japanese wife, he bought a house at the edge of a small village, a 20 minute drive ...

  Visitors to Tokyo often object that the city is unplanned. It may look that way, but actually when Tokyo's forerunner, Edo, was laid out in 1590, it was subject to rigorous organisation. Edo changed many times, such as in 1603, when it became seat ...