LIVE STREAM SAKE BREWERY TOUR! Join us on Friday the 15th at 9pm Toronto time, for an exclusive sake brewery tour with Shuhari (Sawaya Matsumoto) in Kyoto, Japan. Virtual Brewery Tour (via zoom) Friday, May […]
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Romantic Kindness: Naoka Yamada’s A Silent Voice
Produced by the critically acclaimed animation studio, Kyoto Animation, Naoko Yamada’s third film, A Silent Voice, tells the story of a teenage boy, Shoya, who intends to commit suicide. At the last minute, he decides […]
Man Sets Fire to Animation Studio in Kyoto: Catastrophic fire at KyoAni’s studio causes the death of 30+ artists and employees.
According to officials, there are at least 33 deaths and a at least 36 injured after a man set fire to an animation studio in Kyoto, one of the most catastrophic casualty incident since WWII. […]
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 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 […]