Chikako was once Kikuji’s father’s plaything (Kikuji’s father, deceased in the novel, was a Japanese man of leisure with a reputation in tea ceremony). Kikuji remembers going with his father to Chikako’s home as a […]
Author: Kevin Jae
The Internet of Money: Volume Two by Andreas Antonopoulos
Great book about Bitcoin by one of the leading educators of the technology. Some great, original insights as well. Bitcoin is “the concept of decentralization applied to the human communication of value” (p. 2), with […]
The Internet of Money part I by Andreas Antonopoulos
The first book for amateurs on Bitcoin by Andreas Antonopoulos, the educator of Bitcoin. (I have read the second volume and have the book review up already.) The second volume is much more interesting, and […]
From the Soil by Fei Xiaotong
Amazing work by sociologist Fei Xiaotong, who attempts to create a sociology of and from Chinese society, instead of slavishly analyzing Chinese society through a Western theoretical lens. I wonder if there is a Korean […]
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Palme d’Or winning 2018 film Shoplifters centers on what seems to be a loving three-generation family living under one roof.
There is Osamu and Nobuyo, the husband and wife, who work low-pay, precarious jobs; there is Aki, the older daughter who works at a host club, and Shota, the younger son; finally, there is Hatsue, […]
Almost Transparent Blue by Ryu Murakami
What an imagination—and if not wrested out from the imagination to be put on a blank page, what a life! Ryu Murakami’s Almost Transparent Blue shook me violently, coming from Kawabata as I was. The novel […]
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Basho
I was reading this six months ago when I was stuck in Paris for some weeks (thought I lost my passport). What an epic journey it must have been for Basho, the renowned Japanese poet, […]
Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima | Kevin Jae’s book review
On the back cover of the novel, a reviewer compares Mishima with Andre Gide, and this novel does remind me of Gide’s work, as it is profoundly introspective, taking the readers through an uncertain search […]
The Old Capital by Yasunari Kawabata
One needs to be a good listener to read Kawabata properly to hear what is not written. There were times where after a reading session, I felt the quality of my surroundings change, while at […]
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima | Japan book reviews
A strange story that could not have been written by anyone else other than Mishima. A group of five teenagers raised in solidly middle class families form a gang joined by a sense of nihilistic discontent […]
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