Book Breaks

Thursday, February 27, 2020, 18:15 - 20:30   ​​​​​​​         A Social History of the Ise Shrines, published in the new Bloomsbury Shinto series, is the first attempt in any language to write a critical history of the Ise shrines from their 7th century ...

             Janine Beichman     With Dr.Donald Keene in 2017, taken by Nobuyuki Suzuki (Tokyo Shimbun)    The Library committee's January Book Break will commemorate the first death anniversary of Dr. Donald Keene, the esteemed scholar who is beloved in ...

                Kashiko Kodate                      Naonori Kodate   International studies highlight the fact that the obstacles facing women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) are multifaceted and must be carefully ...

    ​​​​​​​       The coming book break on “From the History of Water Transportation to Global Water” by his Majesty the Emperor Naruhito, written in Japanese and published in April 2019 by NHK Publishing, Inc., will give a unique opportunity ...

          The second edition of Hidden Horrors: Japanese War Crimes in World War II documents little-known wartime Japanese atrocities during World War II. Yuki Tanaka’s case studies, remarkably original and significant, include cannibalism; the slaughter and starvation of prisoners of ...

                               Todd Crowell   Is there an Asia Atlantis? What ever happened to the Yamashita Treasure? What is the meaning of the Great Stone statues of Jeju? What famous Japanese woodblock ...

                          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 ...