General Essays and Analysis
Responses to News and Current Events
Reports and Articles on Conferences, Talks, Lectures
Reviews, Overviews, and Summaries
Character development as is rarely seen anywhere!
Funny, classy, animal (and people) stories.
Two compilations of Takahashi Rumiko's great short stories.
Inuyasha
Volume 2 Review (at EX.org)
classic, early 20th century book by Miyazawa Kenji.
"Arcadia of My Youth" reivew (6/02).
The Rose of Versailles formal review (at EX.org)
Galaxy
Express 999 formal overview (at EX.org)
IMHO, Tezuka Osamu's masterpiece series.
Miscellaneous
Netwide Resources
Japanese language help:
Find places to Buy!
Greg Irwin is fluent in English and Japanese, and brings Japanese traditional songs to an English-speaking audience.
Shogakukan
magazines (publisher of Shonen Sunday). Some
animated introductions to Shogakukan children's books (in
Japanese). At least three of the books have an environmental message. One teaches children about death. Another relates to war.
Tezuka Osamu World in Japan. (He
was the "father" of modern manga!) And Happy birthday,
robot boy (article on Astro Boy/Tetsuwan Atom); also at the
NY Times (4/7/03).
Leiji (Reiji) Matsumoto stuff.
My Japanese, along with everything else, is hardly perfect. If you find errors anywhere, please feel free to send me a correction. rei (at) mit(dot)edu