The Japan Society Review

(Mrs Ferguson’s Tea-Set, Japan and The Second World War: The Global Consequences Following Germany’s Sinking of the SS Automedon in 1940) By Eiji Seki ISBN 978-1-905246-28-1, pp 187 including plate section, notes, bibliography and index, Global Oriental, 2006, £20 To Japan Society Members when ordered through the society. RRP £35. Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi

By the Mugensha Theatre Company, inspired by Franz Kafka’s The Knock at the Manor Gate, Director So-un Kotakebayashi Theatro Technis, London, Saturday 7 October to Saturday 21 October 2006 Review by Sean Curtin

(The Image of England in the Edo Period: London Bridge and London Clocks) By Timon Screech, translated by Kazuhiro Murayama Kodansha, Tokyo, 2006, 254 pages, ISBN 4-06-258352-6 Review by Sean Curtin

By Ruth Martin Global Oriental, 2007, 162 pages including index bibliography and endnotes, ISBN 978-1-905246-43-4, £45. Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi

By Justin Kerr-Smiley Reportage Press, 2007, 243 Pages, ISBN13: 9780955572937 (Hardback), £16.99p Preview by J. Sean Curtin

By Ikuhiko Hata, edited by Marius B.Jansen ISBN 978-1-905246-35-9, pages 272 including notes and index, Global Oriental, 2007. Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi

By Takashi Uesugi Soshisha, November 2006, 286 pages, 1500 yen Review by Fumiko Halloran

By Miki Fujita BookSurge Publishing, 2006, 268 pages, ISBN: 1419614274 Review by J. Sean Curtin

This book “Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman” is a collection of twenty-six short stories from the surreal to the mundane, some of which he wrote while staying at a U.S. university after the publication of “Norwegian Wood”.

By Yumi Yamaguchi and Arthur Tanaka Kodansha International, 2007, 176 pages, over 200 colour plates from 40 artists, ISBN 10: 4770030312, ISBN 13: 9784770030313, price £20. Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi