The Literary Review just wrote a penetrating and eloquent article on Shun Medoruma's novel In the Woods of Memory, asserting that it's "not simply a meditation on the failure to act, but on the inability to act either rightly or enough or both." Read More
Black Warrior Review just wrote a comprehensive review of renowned Okinawan writer Shun Medoruma's novel In the Woods of Memory,
eloquently asserting that "Medoruma asks after not only the lives of survivors, but also after the half-life of trauma, to measure how long it echoes."
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Stone Bridge Cafe is a bi-weekly online series from Stone Bridge Press devoted to bringing readers short stories, poems, non-fiction pieces, photographs, and artwork from and/or about East Asia. For submission guidelines and info, follow the link at the bottom of this post. Read More
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An unforgettable memoir of the horrors suffered by a Japanese family trapped in Changchun, China, at the end of WW2
A documentary manga biography of the influential artist and the birth and evolution of manga and anime in Japan.
Of special interest to scholars and students of Zen classics, a glossary of specialized vocabulary to aid understanding and practice
A powerful and thought-provoking novel that raises important questions about World War II, war memory, and US imperialism and blowback.
Marc Peter Keane's personal journey through 100 Japanese gardens, looking at them with a designer’s eye.
