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[News-Book Donation] The Book handover ceremony at the Domasi College of Education in #Malawi. Thank you very much to the Embassy of Japan in Malawi for their kind support. @japan_read
https://t.co/IlwFuRCens
[QRT-Book Donation] The Book handover ceremony at @MakerereU. I would appreciate Ambassador Mr. Hidemoto Fukuzawa for his kind cooperation.
@MakerereLibrary, @MakerereNews#Uganda
[News-Book Donation] The Book handover ceremony at the International Relations Institute of #Cameroon. Thank you very much to the Embassy of Japan in Cameroon for their kind support. @ReadJapan_TNF
https://t.co/WyNAw6Jk3y
https://t.co/dA5CIqwISl
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We would like to express our sincere gratitude to the Consulate-General of #Japan in #Mumbai,@TMV_Pune,
K.J. Somaiya Centre for Buddhist Studies, and Mahatma Gandhi International Hindi University for holding the handover ceremony of #bookdonation.
#library#booklover#japanstudy
Dear Friends,
Have you met story tellers in Tohoku?
Let me introduce an essay from Japan-Insights archives.
The tenth one is on Kataribe: 2011.3.11-Future by Mr. Goto and Mr. Onodera.
https://t.co/hg0ud32xXp
Please share this expert’s experience!
#japan#japaneseculture#Tohoku
The Happy Youth of a Desperate Country
By Noritoshi Furuichi
”The bubble is long burst, stable and lifelong employment are no longer guaranteed, generational inequality is on the rise..."
https://t.co/fY9RHsGjyK
#NoritoshiFuruichi#古市憲寿#絶望の国の幸福な若者たち#Japan
The Tale of Genji
#MurasakiShikibu
"The #GenjiMonogatari is the most famous work of Japanese literature.
It is attributed to an early eleventh-century Japanese noblewoman, Murasaki Shikibu, and is usually called the world’s first novel,..."
https://t.co/zvPZPs5hS1
#TheTaleofGenji
Kabuki Heroes on the Osaka Stage, 1780-1830
Andrew C. Gerstle
"#Kabuki was, and remains, an actors’ theatre.
The audience comes to see someone in a play more often than it comes to see the play itself.
The phenomenon is familiar to..."https://t.co/rmngco5K2W
#japan#japaneseart
"Fukubukuro, lucky grab bags sold sealed with no indication of what they contain: this is the analogy chosen by #HarukiMurakami, who has penned the introduction to this collection, to describe its contents...." https://t.co/KYm0zmWgvq
#JayRubin#Soseki#mishima#bananayoshimoto
The Tales of Ise
"A millennium separates Narihira’s world and ours, yet the book continues to resonate. It continues to inspire artists and writers, not least because of its powerful, painful, playful depictions of love in all forms – familial..." https://t.co/DEH1THCOqR
The powerful #earthquake that struck the #Tohoku region of #Japan on Saturday was the aftershock of a catastrophic earthquake of magnitude 9.0 that hit the same area in 2011.
https://t.co/9tEYAzYPj1
Natural Disaster and Nuclear Crisis in Japan: Response and Recovery after J...