Yokohama, California, originally published in 1949, is thefirst published collection of short stories by a Japanese American. Setin the fictional community of Yokohama, California, Toshio Mori'swork is alive with the people, gossip, humor, and legends of JapaneseAmerica in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
Samurai city - Works in Progress Magazine
For three hundred years, Japan enjoyed enviable stability and peace. All it took was locking up its warlike samurai elite in the world’s least efficient city.
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Yojimbo (1961)
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro…
Osamu Dazai
Shūji Tsushima , known by his pen name Osamu Dazai , was a Japanese novelist and author. A number of his most popular works, such as The Setting Sun and No Longer Human, are considered modern classics.
Muni Helps Fuel Japantown’s Recovery
San Francisco’s Japantown is thriving post-pandemic. COVID-19 scrambled most cities’ economies and the way residents and visitors spend money. But sales tax data show some neighborhoods, including Japantown, have made quite a comeback.
Life for Sale
Life for Sale is a 1968 novel by Yukio Mishima. It was first serialised in twenty-one parts in the weekly magazine Weekly Playboy between 21 May 1968 and 8 October 1968. It was published in hardcover format by Shueisha on 25 December 1968. It was published in paperback by Chikuma Bunko on 24 February 1998. It was translated into English by Stephen Dodd and published in paperback in the United Kingdom by Penguin Classics on 1 August 2019. The English translation received a wider release in paperback by Vintage International on 21 April 2020.
Kitagawa Utamaro - Mother and Child - Japan - Edo period (1615–1868) - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
As in a number of the prints in this exhibition, the reflection of the mother and child in this image enables us to see the figures from two sides....
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Reporters sans frontières assure la promotion et la défense de la liberté d'informer et d'être informé partout dans le monde. L'organisation, basée à Paris, compte des bureaux à l'international (Berlin, Bruxelles, Genève, Madrid, Stockholm, Tripoli, Tunis, Vienne et Washington DC) et plus de 150 correspondants répartis sur les cinq continents.
Japan Earthquake Tips: What To Do Before, During And After
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The First Map of Oakland, California: An Historical Speculation as Solution to an Enigma on JSTOR
Jack J. Studer, The First Map of Oakland, California: An Historical Speculation as Solution to an Enigma, California Historical Society Quarterly, Vol. 48, No. 1 (Mar., 1969), pp. 59-71
We Are Living in Pinocchio’s World
I have always wanted to own a Montblanc Writers Edition dedicated to Carlo Collodi, the Italian author whose real name was Carlo Lorenzini. He took his pen name from the Tuscan village where his mo…
Norbert Woehnl Photography
Norbert Woehnl is a photographer in Tokyo, Japan, specializing in travel, location, editorial and street photos.
Japanese media
Reputations, biases, past controversies. I know about Sankei Shimbun and I have some idea about the national newspapers, but I honestly don’t know anything at all about most local ones. Japan has poor press freedom in general (ranked 62nd out of 180 countries for 2026, and that’s after the ranking went up, not because of improvement in Japan but because other countries’ conditions have worsened)
Kumamoto, Japan Earthquake (2026-07-29)
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産経新聞「沖縄県が観光収入を過大発表 反米に利用か」報道は本当か？
裁判所も「不十分」だと認めた産経新聞記事の問題点
沖縄2紙を「日本人として恥」と批判した産経新聞の記事削除 問題がはらむ危険性とは
世論調査を当面休止 架空回答でフジテレビと産経新聞 調査先の電話番号なく不正気づかず
Japan earthquake: Death toll rises to 13 as rescuers race to find people trapped in mall
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