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Sayaka Murata’s Alien Eye
The author of “Convenience Store Woman” has gained a cult following by seeing the ordinary world as science fiction.
‘My kids roll their eyes at mother tongue books’: How to get them to read such books
Booksellers specialising in Chinese, Malay and Tamil titles offer tips. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...
2 Books to Keep You Pleasantly Diverted
A collection of autobiographical sketches; a complicated Japanese mystery.
To Be Happier, Stop Resisting Change
The shot will only go smoothly when it takes the archer himself by surprise,” he wrote—when you “let go of yourself.” In ...
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The Making of a Japanese – The beauty of childhood tinged with bitter pressure
From director Ema Ryan Yamazaki comes the documentary The Making of a Japanese. Following the students of an elementary ...
This weekend in London: Bottomless lasagne, ‘indulgent’ Japanese breakfast and a £27 lobster
Burger and Lobster is bringing back its iconic Legendary Market Tuesdays. It means that every Tuesday from 5PM onwards, you ...
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Nintendo to launch Switch 2 console on June 5
Nintendo's new Switch console will be launched on June 5, the Japanese video game giant said Wednesday, starting the countdown for one of the most hotly awaited gaming launches in ...
US textbooks portray Asians in a limited and negative light, new study shows
An AI-driven analysis of widely used textbooks found that only 1% of sentences contained any mention of Asians or Asian ...
‘What can be a book?’ is the fascinating question at a Sonoma art exhibit
Presiding over the exhibit (literally) is Maki Aizawa’s free-form “book” made from pieces of mulberry paper, stitched by 35 ...
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The Limits of A.I.-Generated Miyazaki
The launch of GPT-4o inspired a rash of A.I.-generated Studio Ghibli-style images. They may bode worse for audiences than for ...