Book Reviews Archive
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Tekkon Kinkreet: Black & White
Book Reviews › 06:32 AM JST - 11th May
Taiyo Matsumoto doesn’t do cute. His characters are spindly grotesques, complete with scars and runny noses. Yet they’re not, it must be said, without their…
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Booklet on wartime sex slavery published
Book Reviews › 03:51 PM JST - 2nd May
TOKYO — A booklet detailing sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army has been published to serve as a bridge between the victims and those who have…
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Read Real Japanese Essays
Book Reviews › 12:11 PM JST - 29th April
There is a world of difference between reading Japanese that has been specially contrived for students and reading real Japanese — that is, real-world Japanese…
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Japan’s best-known novelist fails to deliver—again
Book Reviews › 04:36 PM JST - 22nd April
Criticizing Haruki Murakami is a bit like kicking a puppy or farting on someone’s birthday cake. People look at you with a mixture of horror…
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The 36 Secret Strategies of the Martial Arts
Book Reviews › 09:18 AM JST - 15th April
Hiroshi Moriya's book is a collection of ancient Chinese maxims that encapsulate some of the Far East's most cunning tactics for battle and deception —…
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Murakami sees storytelling as global common language
Book Reviews › 09:26 AM JST - 9th April
TOKYO — Internationally popular novelist Haruki Murakami is working on an extremely lengthy novel. But he appears to cherish every moment. ''Everyday, I am sitting at my…
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Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
Book Reviews › 04:34 PM JST - 4th April
If, as the British writer L P Hartley famously wrote, “the past is a foreign country,” then this paperback reprint of an 1880 travelogue by…
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Quirky Japanese remedies
Book Reviews › 06:55 AM JST - 31st March
How do you clean spilled candle wax on a wooden floor? And what could scallions possibly have to do with a stuffy nose? Lisa Katayama,…
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'Noon Elusive' and other stories
Book Reviews › 07:28 AM JST - 27th March
Dutch-born author Hans Brinckmann came to Japan in 1950, not as part of any occupying army, but as an employee of a bank. He remained…
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Accusations fly fast and furious
Book Reviews › 10:47 AM JST - 19th March
"My war aim is to win." Georges Clemenceau's retort when asked to define France's war aims during the first world war had the great advantage…
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From Marco Polo Bridge to Pearl Harbor
Book Reviews › 02:44 PM JST - 18th March
In his famous novel “Magister LUDI,” Hermann Hesse wrote, “History’s third dimension is always fiction.” This book is a case in point. Although the words…
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One version of the American dream
Book Reviews › 08:24 AM JST - 18th March
By Kevin McGue The story of a young Japanese woman who finds herself lost — in all senses of the word — in San Francisco,…
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