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Category: Books

  • Logos Gallery Book Bazar

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    The Logos Gallery, in the basement of Shibuya’s Parco Part 2, is having a big foreign book bazar, with discounts going from 20 to 80% off. The sale ends January 11. They usually have a lot of their design books on sale during these, so good time to grab those really expensive ones. Link via…

  • ABC Foreign Book Bargain Sale!

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    As the article says, it’s been a crazy year for the Aoyama Book Center this year, but the good news is that things are back to normal, and it’s time for a foreign book bargain sale! It was a year of calamities in Japan, and Aoyama Book Center makes no exception there. But as we…

  • Tokyo Bookstores

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    I was looking through book/magazine distributor Yohan‘s website, and found this section where they review/point out various nice-looking cafe/bookstores in the city. Pictured above is Book Club Kai. Update (16/08/27): The photo is no longer available.

  • Densha Otoko

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    Yuko was telling me about this book a while back. Seems like it’s really the big hit. The hero is no Tom Hanks and the movie has yet to be made but like the 1998 hit film You’ve Got Mail, a new Japanese bestseller is an old-style romance for the internet age – though with…

  • Permanently Interested

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    I like this bit, from Pico Iyer reviewing Donald Richie’s JAPAN JOURNALS: 1947-2004 in last week’s TIME (Asian edition): The expatriate in Asia is often a complainer: things are so different there from the way they are in wherever he thinks of as home that he feels aggrieved, ripped off, patronized or left out. The…

  • Kuhaku Tonight

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    Just a reminder that tonight is the KUHAKU launch party at the Pink Cow in Shibuya. It starts at 7.

  • Tokyo Storm Warning

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    Warren’s TOKYO STORM WARNING gets a short review in this week’s METROPOLIS. The second part of this two-story graphic novel compilation, Tokyo Storm Warning is pure pulp entertainment. In a alternate-universe Tokyo devastated by nuclear war, the remaining humans are forced to fight giant lizards created by the bomb. American pilot Zoe Flynn is called…

  • Voices from the Void

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    Some more info on the KUHAKU release party, Voices from the Void.