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Jan 61 min read
Tokyo Humanities Cafe 20 (31 January, 2025)
Tokyo Humanities Café will celebrate our TWENTIETH EVENT on Friday 31st January 2025 19:30-21:25(ish) at Ryozan Park Lounge (2 minutes...


Dec 18, 20241 min read
Tokyo Humanities Cafe (16 December)
Thanks so much to our fantastic speakers at Tokyo Humanites Café last night – Anne-Gaëlle Saliot, Heidi Lee, Gabriel Richard and Anna...


Nov 15, 20241 min read
Tokyo Humanities Cafe 19 (16 December)
Tokyo Humanities Café 19 will take place Monday 16 December 2024 19:30-21:25(ish) at Ryozan Park Lounge (2 minutes from Sugamo Station,...


Nov 7, 20242 min read
Tokyo Humanities Cafe featured on Asahi Shimbun
Tokyo Humanities Cafe is featured on Asahi Shimbun (November 6, 2024). Online version is available on Asahi Shimbun Digital . The full...


Oct 6, 20241 min read
Tokyo Humanities Cafe 18 (21 Oct)
Tokyo Humanities Café 18 will take place Monday 21 October 2024 19:30-21:25(ish) at Ryozan Park Lounge (2 minutes from Sugamo Station, 5...


Jul 9, 20241 min read
Tokyo Humanities Cafe 17 (26 July)
Next Tokyo Humanities Café is on Friday 26 July (19:30 - 21:30). This free event takes place at Ryozan Park Lounge, 2 minutes' walk from...


May 2, 20241 min read
Tokyo Humanities Cafe 16 (16 May)
Join us for our free event on Thursday, 16 May (19:30 - 21:30). Our new venue is Ryozan Park Lounge, 2 minutes' walk from Sugamo Station...


Jan 5, 20241 min read
Tokyo Humanities Cafe 15 (19 Jan)
Join us for our free* event on Friday, 19 January (19:30 - 21:15). Our new venue is Ryozan Park Lounge, 2 minutes' walk from Sugamo...


Oct 6, 20231 min read
Tokyo Humanities Cafe 14 (26 Oct)
Join us for our free* Halloween event on Thursday, 26 October (19:30 - 21:15). Our new venue is Ryozan Park Lounge, 2 minutes' walk from...


Aug 26, 20231 min read
Tokyo Humanities Cafe 13
Many thanks to our four speakers - Catherine Harrington, Graham Law, Alex MacFarlane, and Hanabi Ryusuitei - at Tokyo Humanities Cafe 13...


Aug 8, 20231 min read
Tokyo Humanities Cafe 13 (24 Aug)
Join us for our free summer event on Thursday, 24th August (19:30 - 21:15). Our new venue is Ryozan Park Lounge, 2 minutes' walk from...


Jun 10, 20231 min read
Tokyo Humanities Cafe 12: Thanks all for coming!
Tokyo Humanities Cafe 12 was held last night. Thanks so much to Ryozan Park for hosting us, to the large audience who turned out - and...


May 30, 20231 min read
Tokyo Humanities Cafe 12 is on Tokyo Weekender
Tokyo Humanities Café is listed in Tokyo Weekender Magazine. Please come along June 9, 19:30-21:15, RYOZAN PARK Lounge, Sugamo, Tokyo....


May 28, 20231 min read
Tokyo Humanities Cafe 12 (9 June)
Tokyo Humanities Cafe is back! We're excited to announce the return of our popular cafe series for the first time in three years! Please...


Mar 13, 20231 min read
Outreach talk at UTS (20 March)
I will give a talk "Five reasons to watch Japanese TV" at the University of Technology Sydney on 20 March.


Sep 6, 20211 min read
Review of Unfree Speech: The Threat to Global Democracy and Why We Must Act, Now
My review of Unfree Speech: The Threat to Global Democracy and Why We Must Act, Now by Joshua Wong is out on Kyoto Journal's website....


Oct 26, 20201 min read
"The Footnote: A Defense" on YouTube
Nerd Nite Tokyo: Draggers & Droppings (live on October 16) is available on YouTube. My talk "The Footnote: A Defense" starts at 3:43.

Oct 8, 20201 min read
The Footnote: A Defense (Nerd Nite Tokyo)
I will be giving a talk "The Footnote: A Defense" at Nerd Nite Tokyo: Daggers & Droppings on October 16 at 8 pm (JST). You can watch it...


Aug 25, 20201 min read
Review of "Japan" by Jeff Kingston
My review of "Japan" by Jeff Kingston is now published in Kyoto Journal 98.


Apr 26, 20201 min read
Review of Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri
My review of Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri is published in Kyoto Journal No. 97.
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