The Japan Society Review

Directed by Satoshi Miki Turtles are Surprisingly Fast Swimmers is an off-beat, urbane comic gem, about loneliness, normality, friendship, and spies, with a magnificent, low-key performance by Juri Ueno, which makes that all somehow work wonderfully. Review by Simon Cotterill

By Andrew Cobbing Global Oriental, 2009, 240 pages. Hardback, £55.00. ISBN-13: 978-1905246182. Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi

By Sir Hugh Cortazzi The Japan Society, 2008 ISBN 978-0-9559977-0-9, pp91 – Illus. The Treaty of Yedo, signed by Lord Elgin and the representatives of the Tokugawa shogunate, stands as one of the hallmarks of the long relationship between Japan and Britain. Occurring at a time of great diplomatic and economic dynamism, the treaty presented […]

Edited by Ruth Taplin Routledge, September 2007, 244 pages. ISBN-13: 978-0415428910. Hardback £75 Review by James Brewer

By Asa Nonami Bungei Shunju, June 2008, 206 pages. ISBN 13: 978-4163701400. Paperback ¥1400 Review by Mikihiro Maeda

Sir Ernest Satow’s Private Letters to W.G. Aston and F.V.Dickins: The Correspondence of a Pioneer Japanologist from 1870-1918 Edited by Ian Ruxton with an introduction by Peter Kornicki Lulu Press inc, 2007, 321 pages including index. ISBN-13: 978-1435710009. £25.50 Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi

By Shigeru Ishiba Shinchosha, January 2005, 254 pages, ¥ 1300. ISBN-13: 978 – 4104737017 Review by Fumiko Halloran

By Yuriko Koike Bunshun Shinsho, 2007. Price: ¥ 750. ISBN-13: 978 – 4166606023 Review by Fumiko Halloran

By Takeo Hiranuma PHP, June 2007, 240 pages. Price: ¥ 1400. ISBN-13: 978 – 4569693064 Review by Fumiko Halloran

By Kaoru Yosano Shincho Shinsho, April 2008, 190 pages. Price: ¥680. ISBN-13: 978 – 4106102578 Review by Fumiko Halloran