Influential 78-year-old Japanese legend Haruomi Hosono signs to Ghostly & announces new album 'Yours Sincerely'
Daniel Robson interviews Otoboke Beaver for The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...
Ura - Tobizaru do be a highlight matchup in every basho
Julian Jefko on Japanese pirate radio: www.yokogaomag.com/editorial/ja...
The 78-year-old Japanese musician Haruomi Hosono has been a vastly influential force for decades. After stints in the ’60s psych-rock band Apryl Fool and the folk-rock group Happy End, Hosono led Yell...
New translation: Abe Kōbō, "The Traitor," trans. Mark Gibeau (Columbia University Press).
cup.columbia.edu/book/the-tra...
New book: Holly Stephens, "Empire by Association: Agriculture and the Reorganization of the Rural Economy in Colonial Korea" (Yale University Press).
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
New book: "Esotericism in East Asia: Cultural Interpretation and Politics," ed. Chienhui Chuang, Sangyun Han, and Julian Strube (Bloomsbury; open access ebook available).
www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...
New book: "Exhibiting East Asian Art in a Global Context," ed.
Wei-Cheng Lin and Chelsea Foxwell (Paragon).
www.paragonbook.com/pages/books/...
New book: Panpan Yang, "Animation Thinks: A Story of Media Entanglements in China" (University of California Press).
www.ucpress.edu/books/animat...
New book: "Beyond the Untranslatable: Theorizing Postcolonial Translation," ed. Talal Asad, Jun’ichi Isomae, Naoki Sakai, Katsuya Hirano, and Gouranga Charan Pradhan (Routledge).
www.routledge.com/Beyond-the-U...
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Michael K. Bourdaghs
Explore the rise and fall of Tokyo’s mini-FM radio scene, a DIY culture that brought voices to the streets and defied government control.
Dave Grohl spread the word about the ferociously funny quartet and now they’re supporting Foo Fighters in stadiums. Just make sure you switch off your phone’s flash if you go to their gigs …
This collection examines postcolonial studies through the lens of translation studies, focusing on Asian and East Asian experiences. It redefines translation as a process of negotiating Otherness with...
In postwar Japan, a writer meets a small-town innkeeper who is obsessed with a tale from the nineteenth century. He relates the saga of Enomoto Takeaki, an a... | CUP
How governmental associations shaped agricultural production in Korea during Japan’s colonizationDrawing on the diaries of everyday farmers, Holly Stephens...
Center for the Art of East Asia, University of Chicago, and Art Media Resources, Inc., 2026. Hardbound, with dust jacket. 408 pages, 16 chapters. Available late March 2026. Item #45941 ISBN: 978158886...
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M11 Ura 5-2 (L)
M15 Tobizaru 6-1 (R)
Today’s hilight?! Monkey magic vs Pink Magic, watch those reflexes! And we get a mono’ii to boot. See reply #natsubasho2026
