21 Jul JAPANESE STUDIES NEWS [July 2019]
A new restoration of Yasujiro Ozu's silent comedy 突貫小僧 Tokkan Kozō (1929, "A Straightforward Boy") will be streaming on Le Cinéma Club for a few days, until July 25th. ...
29 Oct Let’s not forget our history
Let’s not forget our history, you say. Let’s not forget our heroes and our foes, Let’s not destroy this pure and subtle family we are. But you invent yourself a solemn, mighty past...
09 Aug [Upcoming] Yamaga Sokō’s moral philosophy and its modern-day implications (conference presentation)
Yamaga Sokō’s moral philosophy and its modern-day implications - Some considerations on Shidō 'Japan - Premodern, Modern and Contemporary' (Japanese Studies conference) September 3~5, 2018 'Dimitrie Cantemir' Christian University, Romania [Presentation abstract] Yamaga Sokō 山鹿素行 (1622-1685)...
08 Aug Learning from Shōgun today (a cultural studies workshop)
Coordinated by: Radu Leca (Heidelberg University) and yours truly on September 3 (10:00~12:00) at my alma mater, 'Dimitrie Cantemir' Christian University, Bucharest *** Thirty years after the first translation of James Clavell’s Shōgun into Romanian,...
24 Apr A Chilled Out weekend
A few shots from this last Saturday's Chill Out Week, organised by Look Up Japan. Mattia's been bringing together some of the most exquisite artists on the Tokyo indie music...
10 Jan Short trip
Last year has been crazy. Crazy busy, crazy new and sometimes crazy bad. I haven't had so much time to either write on the blog or attend to this poor site of mine....