The Japan Society Review is published on a bimonthly basis. Each issue covers a selection of Japan-related books and films, as well as theatre and stage productions. Its purpose is to inform, entertain and encourage readers to explore the works for themselves.
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26 April 2013
My Life as Li Xianglan (「李香蘭」を生きて) by Yamaguchi Yoshiko (山口淑子), Nihon Keizai Shimbun, 2004, 241 pages, 1600 Yen
26 April 2013
SIRO-A, Leicester Square Theatre, Friday 1 February – Monday 22 April 2013
26 April 2013
Mental Health Care in Japan, Edited by Ruth Taplin and Sandra J. Lawman, Routledge: Contemporary Japan Series, June 2012, 148 pages, ISBN: 978-0-415-69068-3, £90.00
27 March 2013
Director Akio Kondo [近藤明男], 2011, 105 minutes, shown as part of the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme – Tohoku on Film
Review by Mike Sullivan
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24 March 2013
By Thomas L. Wilborn, Strategic Studies Institute, published February 2013 (originally published March 1996) by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 58 pages, ISBN 1482339471
Review by Michael Sullivan
24 March 2013
by Daido Moriyama, translated from Japanese by Lena Fritsch, with an afterword by Simon Baker, Tate Publishing, 2012, 192 pages, ISBN 978-1-84976-094-2, £12.99
Review by Timothy Holm
19 March 2013
by Nancy Broadbent Casserley, Kew Publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, 2013, 64 pages, ISBN978 184246 486 1, £15
19 March 2013
Aesthetic Strategies of the Floating World, Mitate, Yatsushi and Fûryû in Early Modern Japanese Popular Culture, by Alfred Haft, Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2013, volume 9 in the series Japanese Visual Culture, 216 pages, including endnotes, list of characters, bibliography and index, ISBN 978-90-04-200987-9, £78 Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi Alfred Haft works at the [...]
19 March 2013
Sozai Cooking’S Cool Open Day, 5 Middlesex Street, London E1 7AA, Tuesday 12th February 2013 Review by Michael Sullivan with photos by Ali Muskett This month saw the opening of a Japanese cookery school based around two kitchens, one on Middlesex Road near Liverpool Street station and another in So Restaurant in Soho. The open [...]
19 March 2013
The East India Company, Japan and the Globalising World of the Seventeenth Century, lecture by Professor Derek Massarella Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS, Russell Square, London, WC1H 0HG, 15 March 2013 Review by Timon Screech Professor Derek Massarella of Chuo University spoke to a large audience on the theme of globalising trade in the seventeenth century, [...]
