RSS Feed for Japan Today http://www.japantoday.com/feed Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:53:30 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.japantoday.com/category/book-reviews/view/the-year-of-no-money-in-tokyo Any foreigner who’s been in Japan for a while can tell you that there’s a lot of ups and downs to living life out here.… Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:45:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/book-reviews/view/the-ultimate-japanese-phrasebook No matter how long you've been studying the language, no matter how many words you've memorized, it seems you never stop wondering, "How do I… Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:14:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/book-reviews/view/lessons-in-living-green-from-traditional-japan "Just Enough" is a book of stories and sketches, depictions of vanished ways of life told from the point of view of a contemporary observer.… Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:10:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/book-reviews/view/zoo-includes-whodunits-science-fiction-and-horror Hirotaka Adachi was just 17 years old when he had his first story published. “Summer, Fireworks, and My Corpse” was the grisly tale of a… Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:58:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/book-reviews/view/sayonara-mr-fatty Anime producer, author and "otaku" expert Toshio Okada hit the big time when he published "Itsumademo Debu to Omouna yo" (Don’t Think You’ll Be Fat… Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:15:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/book-reviews/view/shibuya-109-english-guidebook Despite its reputation as Tokyo’s leading youth-fashion hub, the 109 shopping complex in Shibuya can be a forbidding place for foreigners. Wall-to-wall teenyboppers and floor… Sun, 18 Oct 2009 03:11:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/book-reviews/view/the-manga-cookbook Japanese food and manga must be two of the country’s most successful exports, but they’re not the most obvious of bedfellows. However, an unorthodox cookbook… Fri, 16 Oct 2009 05:49:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/book-reviews/view/reporters-look-at-yakuza-gets-personal A journalist is supposed to observe and report his story, not become part of it. But by the time Jake Adelstein found himself face to… Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:29:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/book-reviews/view/book-looks-at-24-years-of-noriko-sakais-life Noriko Sakai, 38, the singer and actress who goes on trial on Oct 26 for possession of drugs and stimulant use, is the subject of… Sat, 10 Oct 2009 06:50:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/book-reviews/view/photo-album-of-ainu-people-living-in-tokyo-published A record of the daily lives of Ainu people living in the Tokyo metropolitan area has been published as a photo collection. Around 160 photos… Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:19:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/book-reviews/view/the-summer-of-ubume There’s no shortage of writers who have picked up literary awards for their debut novels. Far rarer are the ones who have had a new… Fri, 02 Oct 2009 04:41:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/book-reviews/view/occupied-city David Peace is a tough bugger to enjoy. His prose is knotty, claustrophobic, obsessive to the point of monomania: constantly repeating, repeating, full of endless… Sun, 20 Sep 2009 04:24:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/book-reviews/view/guide-to-international-schools-in-japan How many times have you heard people talking about finding a “good school” for their kids? But what exactly does “good” mean? Is it a… Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:00:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/book-reviews/view/hiroki-azuma-the-philosopher-of-otaku-speaks Familiar scenario: you’re going to be marooned on an island and you can only bring X number of books with you. If that island happens… Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:38:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/book-reviews/view/the-lucie-blackman-case-and-the-hostess-industry A new book bringing fresh insights into the death of Tokyo hostess Lucie Blackman has been written by London-based journalist Clare Campbell. She was able… Mon, 07 Sep 2009 06:13:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/book-reviews/view/kennedy-memoir-reveals-remorse-over-fatal-accident In a posthumous memoir, Massachusetts Sen Edward M Kennedy writes of fear and remorse surrounding the fateful events on Chappaquiddick Island in 1969, when his… Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:04:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/book-reviews/view/is-kabukicho-dangerous-mizoguchis-new-book-tells-all In Lonely Planet's guide to Tokyo, Kabukicho and the neighboring Golden Gai are accorded one paragraph each. Those wanting to know more about what is… Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:40:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/book-reviews/view/book-tells-story-of-japanese-who-fought-for-indonesias-freedom Rahmat Shigeru Ono enjoyed his dinner of fried noodles, mixed sauteed vegetables and a spicy boiled egg. For decades, in fact, for most of his… Thu, 20 Aug 2009 05:41:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/book-reviews/view/the-decorative-art-of-japanese-food-carving You can tell by the decorative food carving at kaiseki restaurants that the Japanese eat with their eyes. No other book has captured this dying… Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:36:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/book-reviews/view/sustainable-sushi This is an interesting read for anyone concerned with sustainability and seafood. Trenor’s passion for the topic is evident in the vast amount of research… Thu, 06 Aug 2009 06:33:00 +0100