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The latest edition of the Japan Writers Conference was a friendly forum for anglophone writers to connect and converse. japantimes.co.jp/community/2024…


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Interested in hosting or sponsoring our annual Japan Writers conference? Email to japanwritersconference@gmail.com to get more details.

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Thanks very much to everyone who worked to make the 2024 Japan Writers Conference a reality—and also to everyone who attended to make it a success. Keep on writing! japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/original/video…


Thinking of going to the 2024 @JapanWritersCon two weeks from now? Here's a look back at some highlights from the 2023 conference. youtube.com/watch?v=wvRMWe…


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End of an era. Tyler Austin and I say our farewells to my longtime podcast partner and best friend John E. Gibson, who is starting a new chapter in the U.S. from tomorrow. #grateful_beyond_words

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Just 20 days until @JapanWritersCon Here's an interview I gave about it last year. connect.ajet.net/2023/05/19/jap…


My latest for The Japan News. Polish poet Krystyna Dabrowska and Booker-nominated Irish novelist Elaine Feeney will be at the EU Lit Fest was n Tokyo this weekend.

The public can learn about the impact of the Moomins, the life of Isak Dinesen, and the freshest thoughts of many countries’ poets and novelists at 20 free events around Tokyo as the European Literature Festival takes place this weekend. japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/culture/books-…



Looking for something literary to do in Japan next month? Check out the Japan Writers Conference: japanwritersconference.org


Today is a rainy day in Tokyo. So here is some history behind ukiyo-e artist Hiroshige's famous depiction of a rainy day in Tokyo. tsumugu.yomiuri.co.jp/en/feature/shi…


Cheers for my alma mater, whose founder said that "here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.” news.virginia.edu/content/uva-no…


I see that John Scalzi’s “Kaiju Preservation Society” has won the Seiun Award for the year’s best sci-fi novel translated into Japanese. Here’s my review of the English-language original. japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/culture/books-…


Each time Japan won a gold medal in Paris, the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper printed an extra. Copies are now on display in the Yomiuri building’s lobby—taking up quite a bit of space.

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Bound to Please / Scholar Reveals Real-Life Characters Behind the Fiction of ‘Shogun’ 📌 loom.ly/nNMbJc0 📚 loom.ly/KYVnHS4

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#JBW is up! Ariel Martinez of Nippon Ham (via ⁦@beisboljapones⁩🙏🏽) is the guest, ⁦@JballAllen & I talk⁩ Roki, Koshien & answer a couple of 🔥HighHeat🔥 questions… japanesebaseball.com/blogs/blog.jsp… qw7xh.app.goo.gl/MkA9nSHgqnRp8k…


This year’s Japan Writers Conference is Nov 2-3 in Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture. The lineup of presentations has just been announced. japanwritersconference.org


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We've got it covered! Slide over to The Japan News website for the latest Olympic news from Paris, complete with in-depth reports, athlete features and much more that capture all the drama in the quest for gold and glory. japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/sports/olympic…


“Shogun” was a great TV series, even if they did leave out the penguin-eating scene. Yes, that really happened. That and more is revealed in a new nonfiction book about Will Adams. japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/culture/books-…


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With 25 Emmy nominations, "Shogun" was a success story more than 400 years in the making — if you count back to the real-life events that inspired it, which historian Frederik Cryns describes in a fascinating book. japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/culture/books-…

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