Archive for February, 2007

Kyoto International Manga Museum

Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 23rd, 2007 No Comments »

The Kyoto International Manga Museum rides the high tide of interest in Japanese popular culture, and is housed in a beautiful old school building, but curious visitors will not find much to see inside. Unless you want to observe how blissfully quiet kids can become when they sit reading manga books…
The walls of the long [...]

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Essays by Donald Keene

Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 23rd, 2007 No Comments »

The great Japan scholar Donald Keene does not need an introduction to readers of this blog, as anyone even slightly interested in Japan is bound to have come across his many translations of Japanese literature, new ( for example, After the Banquet and Thirst for Love by Mishima) and traditional (Essays in Idleness, The Narrow [...]

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