To Chinese strategists, media warfare (and the broader Political Warfare effort of which media warfare is part) is just as important as building the People’s Liberation...
Right premise, wrong approach: Ching returns to his theme of wanting to decenter the nation-state in East Asia and find a new solution to the “anti-Japanism”...
Especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, "It is convenient to borrow books without visiting the library so e-books are becoming more popular,” said Chiyoda Public Library’s public...
Whiting has known baseball stars, wrestlers, politicians, media moguls, mafiosi, con artists, journalists, and countless average Japanese people. He writes about them all with the immediacy...
Playfully urging the reader to imagine themselves in a time machine high high off the ground, the author introduces the serious developments of Japanese culture and...
Harris should have attempted to understand the history of Japan’s wartime past without applying the easy filter of the DC-Tokyo establishment line.
“I can't choose a favorite in this collection, because all of my stories are like my own children,” says author Kyoko Nakajima.
There is a growing awareness in the publishing industry of the demand for “diverse voices” in the offerings of publishing houses, bringing new attention to Japanese...
‘What Japan can most beautifully offer to the world right now is not the futurism its technology and big companies often represent, but its closeness to...
‘An analytical approach to Japan feels to me like trying to eat noodles with a knife and fork. What I look for in foreign writing about...
Autumn Light and A Beginner’s Guide to Japan ‘could be said to represent heart and head, the part of us that is inside Japan and the...
‘I choose to live in Japan as a tourist partly to keep myself honest…. Being a tourist here reminds me that I don’t know very much,...
