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...

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...

Tokyo Humanities Café is listed in Tokyo Weekender Magazine. Please come along June 9, 19:30-21:15, RYOZAN PARK Lounge, Sugamo, Tokyo....

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...

I will give a talk "Five reasons to watch Japanese TV" at the University of Technology Sydney on 20 March.

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....

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...