My review of "Japan" by Jeff Kingston is now published in Kyoto Journal 98.

My review of Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri is published in Kyoto Journal No. 97.

Apologies we have had to cancel Tokyo Humanities Cafe on March 13 due to the corona virus. We will reschedule soon. Sincere apologies for...

Running since 2017, we're now on our 12th event: Tokyo Humanities Cafe, this Friday March 13th, at our usual venue in Shimokitazawa. As a...

My piece on the fabulous Tokyo Poetry Journal "Rebel Poets Against the Machine: An interview with Tokyo Poetry Journal editors Jeffrey Jo...

Thanks a lot to our presenters (Yuiko, Megan, Judith, and Toru) and to the over 50 people who came along. Please check out the photos of ...

We're excited to announce our 11th cafe, right at the beginning of a new decade - Thursday, January 9th, 2020, at our usual venue in Shim...

My interview with embroidery artist Alison Carpenter-Hughes is out.

My review of On the Bullet Train With Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights in Japan by Judith Pascoe is out on the latest issue of Kyoto Journal.

We're excited to announce our 10th cafe (can it really be the 10th already...): Tuesday, September 17th, at our usual venue in Shimokitaz...

Amanda Alvarez (RIKEN) and I will be doing a panel "Be There: Events that Bring Words to Life" at Japan Writers Conference on Sunday, Oc...

We're excited to announce details of our ninth "Tokyo Humanities Cafe"! It will be on Friday June 21st at 7.30pm, at our usual venue (Goo...

Thanks a lot to everyone who came to Tokyo Humanities Cafe last night. We had the largest crowd ever last night! Please see here for some...

My recent interview on Tokyo Humanities Cafe by Dr. Ayumi Koso of the National Institutes for the Humanities. The link provides entire au...

We're excited to announce details of our spring "Tokyo Humanities Cafe"! It will be on Thursday, April 18 at 7.30pm, at our usual venue (...

We're excited to announce details of our Christmas "Tokyo Humanities Cafe"! It will be on Thursday, December 20th at 7.30pm, at our usual...

Thanks all for coming to THC7 last night. We are happy that it was a full-house despite the busy pre-holiday/bonenkai week. Q&A sessions w...

My new article "Have Something to Say: Masahiko Abe on the University of Tokyo’s rejection of the Japanese Education Ministry’s English E...

Thanks everyone who came out to THC 6 last night. We had a full house with 50+ people in the audience. Big shout out to the speakers too!...

My review of "Pachinko" by Min Jin Lee, originally published in Kyoto Journal No. 89 (January 2018), has been reproduced on their officia...