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Mishima’s Horoscope: A Death foretold?
In 1968 two years before Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) killed himself astrological predictions about the fate of five popular Japanese writers, Shintaro Ishihara (1932-2022), Kenzaburo Oe… Read more »
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Soseki’s Cat: A Quantum Leap for Japanese Literature
The mysterious and magical effect of cats is widely celebrated. Cats entertain, evoke stress-reducing emotional responses, constantly and often counter-intuitively amuse, and cats – of… Read more »
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How To Read A Film: Kurosawa and his books
Is it necessary, really, to learn how to read a film?’ asks the seminal book on film studies, How To Read a Film, in the… Read more »
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A British Publisher’s Adventures in the Japanese book system
I learned the art of reference book selling in US in the late 1970s. Macmillan was the publisher since 1979 of Sir George Grove’s (1820-1900) Dictionary of… Read more »
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Short Story Writing in Japan: From Nobel Prize winners to AI
Stripped back to the essentials; compact but still complete; intelligently and stylishly packaged with quality shining through: These are traits that have been applied to… Read more »
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