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Stephen Mansfield Talks Tokyo
Episode 29
Stephen Mansfield, author of Tokyo: A Biography (Tuttle, 2017), is a British writer and photo-journalist based in Japan. His photo-journalism work ha…
3 years, 5 months ago
Translating Hiromi Ito's "The Thorn Puller" with Jeffrey Angles
Episode 28
In this episode of the Books on Asia Podcast, host Amy Chavez sits down with writer, translator, and professor of Japanese at Western Michigan Univer…
3 years, 6 months ago
Sarah Coomber and the Female Experience Teaching in Japan
Episode 27
Sarah Coomber is the author of The Same Moon (Camphor Press, 2020), a memoir about what happened when she traded out her wrecked Minnesota life for t…
3 years, 7 months ago
Azby Brown on Sustainability and his Book “Just Enough”
Episode 26
In this episode of the BOA podcast, host Amy Chavez talks with Azby Brown, a long-time resident of Japan and author of Just Enough: Lessons from Japa…
3 years, 9 months ago
Traveling Japan as a Blind Person, with Maud Rowell
Episode 25
In this episode of the BOA podcast, host Amy Chavez talks with Maud Rowell about her new book Blind Spot: Exploring and Educating on Blindness (404 I…
3 years, 10 months ago
Moving to Japan's Countryside with Iain Maloney
Episode 24
In this episode of the Books on Asia podcast, podcast host and island-dweller Amy Chavez and Gifu countryside villager Iain Maloney discuss their exp…
3 years, 11 months ago
The Spirit of Shizen: The Nature of Japan through 72 Seasons, with Robert Weis
Episode 23
Podcast host Amy Chavez talks to Robert Weis, curator of the Luxembourg Natural History Museum's upcoming exhibit, “Spirit of Shizen – The Nature of …
4 years ago
Cody Poulton on Japanese Performing Arts
Episode 22
Amy asks Poulton to explain the difference between reading Noh plays and seeing a Noh performance. Poulton goes into great detail on the subject, inc…
4 years, 1 month ago
John Stevens, a lifetime of publishing
Episode 21
This week author and translator John Stevens joins us from Hawaii. Stevens has penned many books over his long career, mainly dealing with Japanese m…
4 years, 2 months ago
Abby Denson talks Japan via Comics
Episode 20
Abby Denson is the award-winning author of Cool Japan Guide: Fun in the Land of Manga, Lucky Cats and Ramen, Cool Tokyo Guide: Adventures in the City…
4 years, 3 months ago