Like the setting of Beckett plays, Kōbō Abe sets his entire novel in an unknown town. A nameless character in a box narrates the whole book–a “Box Man”, who shed his identity in society and […]
Month: February 2019
The Samurai by Shusaku Endo: Japanese Literature Book Review
The novel is set in the 17th century and follows a four-year journey made by a group of low-ranking samurai (and retainers) sent on a diplomatic mission by a faction of the Japanese government to […]
(Un)quiet Well-lit Space: Steven Nunoda’s Ghostown and Ladder to the Moon
Being Japanese Canadian: Reflections on a Broken World, exhibition at Royal Ontario Museum Steven Nunoda’s installation piece in the ROM’s “Japanese Canadian: reflections on a broken world” puts two distinctly different memories in the same […]
Japanese Canadian comedian, Yumi Nagashima is breaking all sorts of stereotypes
View this post on Instagram Check out my interview with @vicecanada! Just dropped an hour ago! Meow😽 Yumi Nagashima🧚♀️さん(@yumicomedy)がシェアした投稿 – 2019年 2月月21日午前11時45分PST Tokyo born and Vancouver based standup comedian and actor, Yumi Nagashima is making […]
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima : Japanese Literature Book Review
An infinitely interesting investigation into the great question beauty. This first time around, I could not recognize if Mishima enounciated a coherent theory of aesthetics or if what was written was a confused collection of […]
Ariana Grande’s tattoo: has accusations of cultural appropriation gone too far?
Although cultural appropriation has become an often-discussed topic in western media today, it is a term Japanese people are not too familiar with at all. Cultural appropriation, the adoption of elements of one culture by […]
Is the Japanese Valentine’s Day outdated?
Valentine’s day in Japan is kind of a big deal. Valentine’s Day in western countries is highly commercialized, while the Japanese Valentine’s Day took off commercially in the mid 1950s, and quickly grew into a […]
2019—How has it been for gender equality in Japan?
Following the downfall of Hollywood mogul, Harvey Weinstein in 2017, the #MeToo movement became a global phenomenon, shaken institutions and challenged the way society views sexual assault. America, last year, elected a record-breaking four women […]
Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
Snow Country starts (and ends) with Yoko, a girl with “such a beautiful voice that it struck one as sad.” Shimamura is only permitted an indirect apprehension of her through Kawabata’s window-mirror (there is an […]
Japanese Literature Book Review
TORJA’s weekly book review column seeks to present readers with ways to read Japanese literature. From contemporary works to classics, TORJA’s book reviewers, will provide readers with analyses, overviews, as well as pinpoint what one […]
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