Book Breaks

Against the global backdrop of book publishing compared to a low-growth business, five distinguished speakers representing the Japanese market will discuss their experiences including opportunities available for foreign authors .The evening will probe tradition, distribution, pitching to publishers and current trends as Japanese society changes. ...

Antonin and Noémi Raymond accompanied Frank Lloyd Wright to Tokyo in 1919 to work on the now-legendary Imperial Hotel, and essentially never left. With the exception of the war years, they made their home in Tokyo for over four decades, running one of the most ...

Japan, Pierre-Antoine Donnet writes, faces the challenges of an assertive China in the form of military harassment operations against countries that assert their maritime rights in the South China Sea.    Clearly, he continues, China has an objective to drive the United States out of ...

The Library Committee regrets to announce the above planned event has been cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience and thank you for your understanding. Library, Archives & Workroom Committee   ...

Euroshock is the inside story of the unprecedented restructuring of Greece’s debt in 2012—the largest restructuring in history—and how the Eurozone was stabilized and Greece was saved from exit from the Euro and economic calamity. In the fall of 2009, the world economy was beginning ...

日本語の告知文が英文の下に続きます。 Described as a “shaman of poetry,” poet, author and essayist Hiromi Ito, is a leading figure in the Japanese literary scene. Critics have described her skills as “allowing the voices of others to flow through her,” while noting that her literary vision is drawn ...

Author's description and background A Gentleman from Japan is the first book to focus on the beginning of relations between Japan and the English-speaking world between 1587 and 1592. It follows the life of 'Christopher' (as the English named him), an enslaved Japanese man in ...