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Booklet on wartime sex slavery published
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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- Booklet on wartime sex slavery published (9)
- Read Real Japanese Essays (10)
- Japan’s best-known novelist fails to deliver—again (21)
- The 36 Secret Strategies of the Martial Arts (9)
- Murakami sees storytelling as global common language (5)
- Unbeaten Tracks in Japan (1)
- Quirky Japanese remedies (5)
- 'Noon Elusive' and other stories
- Accusations fly fast and furious
- From Marco Polo Bridge to Pearl Harbor (1)
- One version of the American dream
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Read Real Japanese Essays
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…
Japan’s best-known novelist fails to deliver—again
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…
The 36 Secret Strategies of the Martial Arts
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 —…
Murakami sees storytelling as global common language
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…
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
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…
Quirky Japanese remedies
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,…
'Noon Elusive' and other stories
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…
Accusations fly fast and furious
"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…
From Marco Polo Bridge to Pearl Harbor
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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