The Era of Great Disasters: Japan and Its Three Major Earth Quakes, by Iokibe Makoto (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, July 2020) Review by Amy Chavez Included in the University of Michigan Press ‘Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies,’ The Era of Great Disasters is a scholarly but highly readable text that investigates Japan’s More…
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15 years at Studio Ghibli by Steve Alpert
(Photo of author, left, with Hayo Miyazaki and others) An excerpt from the upcoming release Sharing a House with the Never-Ending Man: 15 years at Studio Ghibli By Steve Alpert (Stone Bridge Press, June 2020) Temporarily Misplaced in Translation When I first began learning Japanese I was struck by how beautifully it can express certain More…
Review—In Praise of Shadows (Vintage, 2019)
A Mind-Changing Interpretation of Japanese Aesthetics In Praise of Shadows, by Junichirō Tanizaki (translated by T. J. Harper & E. Seidensticker) Vintage Classics, Nov. 2019. Reviewed by Renae Lucas-Hall A new fully-illustrated release of In Praise of Shadows by Junichirō Tanizaki, translated by Thomas J. Harper and Edward G. Seidensticker, has just been published by More…