Book Breaks

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 ...

Wednesday, April 10, 2019, 18:15 - 20:30                 ​​​​​​​     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 ...

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 ...

Tuesday, January 23, 2018, 18:15 - 20:30           Kazuo Abiko　 （我孫子和夫）　 　　　　　　　　　   Ko Yamaguchi (山口光）   The environment surrounding news media has changed drastically over the past two decades, primarily due to rapid advancement of information technology. The hardest-hit might be the newspaper ...

Wednesday, January 10, 2018, 18:15 - 20:30    Robert S. Boynton Professor of Journalism New York University   During the 1970s and early eighties, dozens – perhaps hundreds – of  Japanese civilians were kidnapped by North Korean commandos and forced to live in ‘Invitation-Only Zones’ in North Korea, ...