RSS Feed for Japan Today http://www.japantoday.com/feed Tue, 13 May 2008 22:07:20 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.japantoday.com/category/book-reviews/view/tekkon-kinkreet-black-white 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… Sun, 11 May 2008 06:32:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/book-reviews/view/booklet-on-wartime-sex-slavery-published 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… Fri, 02 May 2008 15:51:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/book-reviews/view/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… Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:11:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/book-reviews/view/japan%e2%80%99s-best-known-novelist-fails-to-deliver%e2%80%94again 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… Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:36:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/book-reviews/view/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 —… Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:18:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/book-reviews/view/murakami-sees-storytelling-as-global-common-language 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… Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:26:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/book-reviews/view/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… Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:34:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/book-reviews/view/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,… Mon, 31 Mar 2008 06:55:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/book-reviews/view/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… Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:28:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/book-reviews/view/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… Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:47:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/book-reviews/view/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… Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:44:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/book-reviews/view/one-version-of-the-american-dream By Kevin McGue The story of a young Japanese woman who finds herself lost — in all senses of the word — in San Francisco,… Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:24:00 +0100