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Win A Unique Samurai SENDAN no ITA Keyring

Our friends at KATCHU JAPAN are delighted to offer 3 lucky winners a choice of three designs of SENDAN no ITA Keyrings, with FREE shipping worldwide. For your…

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Book Review: ‘Fallout: The Hiroshima cover-up and the reporter who revealed it to the world’

Not particularly just about the nuclear bomb itself the book is more about the covering up of both the immediate and ensuing adverse aftereffects of the nuclear bomb…

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Book Review: ‘Honoured and Dishonoured Guests: Westerners in Wartime Japan’

For a subject that seems rarely to have been written about this is a welcome publication highlighting (and that is the operative term being used in this review)…

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Book Review: ‘Things Remembered and Things Forgotten’ By Kyoko Nakajima

More usually a fan of non-fiction books about Japan it was with some uncertainty that this book was purchased on the back of the author’s reputation alongside a…

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‘Tokyo: Art and Photography’ at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

29 July 2021 – 3 January 2022 Ahhh… Edo, Edo, Edo… …city of dreams, and occasional nightmares… …as Kumagai Jiro Naozane in the final part of the Kabuki…

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Japan Stories それぞれの日本

A beautifully written patchwork of stories of contemporary Japan each of which focuses on and mainly revolves around one person with associated minor characters who, though obviously less…

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Book Review: Walking in Circles: Finding Happiness in Lost Japan. A Shikoku Memoir

For the second time in seven years Todd sets off on the 88 temple 1,400 km Pilgrim’s Trail (Shikoku Henro) around the smallest, and possibly least visited by…

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Event Review: Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk at the V&A

Until Sunday 25th October 2020 (left to right) kimono bought by Freddy Mercury whilst on tour in Japan, Madonna outfit by Jean-Paul Gautier , Bjork outfit by Alexander…

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Book Review: Yasuke: The True Story of the Legendary African Samurai

The remarkable life of history’s first foreign-born samurai, and his astonishing journey from Northeast Africa to the heights of Japanese society. A quite astonishing and meticulously researc…

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Book Review: A Beginners Guide to Japan: Observations and Provocations

A particularly idiosyncratic book this may not suit the tastes of some but is certainly one which provokes. There are many and often inexperienced travellers to Japan who…

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January 2020 Tea Event Minamoto Kitchoan London

Sample some of the best high quality Japanese teas available in the UK! Venue: Minamoto Kitchoan 44 Piccadilly, London Date: 25th January 2020 Time: 14.00– 17.00 (Please just pop in…

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Book Review: Tokyo Stories: A Japanese Cookbook

Tokyo Stories is a journey through the boulevards and backstreets of Tokyo via recipes both iconic and unexpected! Though having published other books (his humorous biographical essays ‘Tune…

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Review: 2019 Kabuki Kaomise – the National Theatre of Japan and the Shinbashi Enbujo

PART TWO The November 2019 performance at the National Theatre of Japan was ‘Koko no Yushi Musume Kagekiyo: Hyuga-Jima’ (孤高勇士嬢景清: (四幕五場) 日向嶋. A Brave and Solitary Warrior Kagekiyo…

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Review: November 2019 – the Festive Annual Kabuki Kaomise

PART ONE The start of the Kabuki season, around November each year, is marked by what is referred to as the Kaomise (lit. face showing) performances. This is…

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October 2019 Tea Tasting Event

Sample some of the best high quality Japanese teas available in the UK! Venue: Minamoto Kitchoan 44 Piccadilly, London Date: 26th October 2019 Time: 14.00– 18.30 Admission: FREE

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Exhibition Review: ‘Sakubei Yamamoto and the Rich Seams of Japan’s Coal Mining History’

4th Oct – 15th November 2019 at the Japanese Embassy in London It was Monday 30th July 1973 when, just before 620 am, Colin Burton (a maternal uncle),…

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