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The cover of today’s selected text, ‘Academic Women’ by Kano Yoshimasa, in bold red text on a white cover. It has a green obi-band with some detail of the content.
31 May 2025
2025年5月31日
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Having had an insult thrown my way recently because I’m ’an out-of-touch academic’, coincidentally my eyes fell upon this book today. It’s from the older section of my shelves, indeed, I bought it as a postgrad c. 1988. 1/3
加野芳正『アカデミック・ウーマン』1988年
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The cover of today’s book on critical security studies which appears to show a view of the earth from a satellite image, a blue foreground to a curved horizon into a black sky.
30 May 2025
2025年5月30日
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Around the time I was doing my PhD, around the turn of the century (I’ll let you guess which one🤭), Critical Security Studies emerged as a school within the discipline of IR. It’s been a hard road, getting established. 1/3
南山淳・前田幸男『批判的安全保障論』2022年
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Today’s selected text, simple gradation of green shades on the cover over which I’d written the title of the book on peace constitutions and neutrality.
29 May 2025
2025年5月29日
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One thing I’ve learnt over the years…don’t be afraid to pick up books that look difficult, in either language. Friends often say I had very difficult books on my shelves. When I asked why, they said ‘very hard vocab’. 1/3
澤野義一『平和憲法と永世中立』2012年
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The cover of today’s selection, a book of memoir of Ambassador Yamagami Shingo, Japanese Ambassador to Canberra between 2020-2023. The cover is a deep green with yellow text, and a yellow obi-band indicating the contents.
28 May 2025
2025年5月28日
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I continue to sort my books into bookcases (basically two-and-a-half rooms, so far), but you probably don’t need to know that. This one continues a tradition of diplomatic memoirs about Australia, written by fmr ambassadors. 1/3
山上信吾『南半球便り』2023年
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The cover of today’s selection, a graphic diary of a garbage man’s daily life—picturing the style of the illustrator, showing a garbo lifting two plastic bags.
27 May 2025
2025年5月27日
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Once upon a time I ‘studied’ manga for reading practice but also, as I read a few different series, they were good for understanding cultural signals, especially through the seasons. Some are surprising hits. 1/3
滝沢秀一・友紀『ゴミ清掃員の日常』2019年
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Today’s selection, an anthology of short stories by several well-known and or best-selling authors all of whose names appear at the top of the cover. It is otherwise a bluish cover, featuring petals or feathers or similar flying/ floating in the air, with a small boy at the bottom.
26 May 2025
2025年5月26日
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While the exhibition work continues, I need to consider other books too, of course. I’ve mentioned the short story form as a popular genre in Japan, whether a selection of one author, or an anthology. Here’s one. 1/3
アンソロジー『モノガタリは終わらない』2022年
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Today’s selection, a children’s picture book by Kusaba and Yamanaka, depicts the Nobel Peace Prize winning speech by Hiroshima survivor and anti-nuclear advocate, Setsuko Thurlow. The cover is mostly yellow with a depiction of a child’s face, looking despairing.
25 May 2025
2025年5月25日
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Following on from yesterday (time is closing in, it’s a bit focussed now), I don’t think I’ve introduced any children’s books yet. Here’s one, I’ve collected a few over the years. This one is special too. 1/3
くさばよしみ(編)やまなじゃももこ(絵)『光にむかって』2022年
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The cover of today’s selected text, essays by Maruki Toshi, on artworks by her and her husband, representations of the atomic bombs and the aftermath. The book has a faded reddish cover with a peace illustration on the cover. Also my entrance ticket to their museum, is resting in the cover, dated 1994.
24 May 2025
2025年5月24日
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I’m currently working with some colleagues on a special event for the 80th Anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We’ve been sharing resources. This is one of my most treasured books. 1/3
丸木俊『言いたいことありすぎて』1987年
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The cover of today’s selection, an historical novel by Shiba Ryotaro about Japanese immigration to Thursday Island, northern Queensland. The text is in large yellow characters on a blue background showing gradation to give the impression of the ocean.
23 May 2025
2025年5月23日
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A few days ago I mentioned the work of Shiba Ryotaro in the context of history and his renown as an author of historical novels, and significant events. I first encountered this one in the course of my research. 1/3
司馬遼太郎『木曜島の夜会』2011年[初出版:1970年代]
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Today’s selection which has the title in big red characters along with a few samples of Tezuka’s manga in black and white. It’s a busy cover.
22 May 2025
2025年5月22日
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Speaking of philosophy (yesterday), here’s another. So many books with 哲学 (tetsugaku) in the title. Although usually translated as philosophy, in this case it can mean ‘thought’ too, broadly. My favourite manga artist. 1/3
小川仁志『手塚治虫マンガを哲学する』2022年
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The cover of today’s selection a book by Ōshima Yoshimi on a philosophy of music from a performer’s perspective. Mostly cream-coloured but with a watercolour sketch of a colour mix of reds, blues, yellows, in a wash-effect.
21 May 2025
2025年5月21日
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We are mid-season (of a two concert series) with the orchestra, so my mind is quite performance-focussed. We rehearse once a week, (practice a little less🤭) and when we are between concerts, my parts play in my head. 1/3
大嶋義実『演奏家が語る音楽の哲学』2022年
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Today’s book selection, a book about ‘blue’ with a blue cover with an intricate William Morris pattern.
20 May 2025
2025年5月20日
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A few books ago I introduced a bookshop in downtown Tokyo, not far from Ochanomizu, that has an amazing aesthetic and sells just the most gorgeous ‘want-one-of-everything’ books and paper products. Here’s another one. 1/3
橋本実千代『青の図鑑』2023年
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The cover of today’s choice, a novel by Ayase Maru, ‘Yagate umi eto todoku’, a story that draws on events of the triple disaster in Northern Japan’s in March 2011. We look at the back of a young woman looking out to sea, with many butterflies in flight around her.
19 May 2025
2025年5月19日
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It’s Monday, and I’ve spent the day working on a writing project. So time to relax, you might think. As a political scientist, I’d have to say my story choices can be influenced by authors who tackle sociopolitical issues. 1/3
彩瀬まる『やがて海へと届く』2019年
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The cover of today’s selection, a small book of short stories by favourite authors about ‘just the one’—a glass of tipsy, with a glass of red wine on the cover, with the authors listed.
18 May 2025
2025年5月18日
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Sunday, washing, cleaning, reading, oh, and some croquet before the day is out. I’m tending towards short stories in my own writing (Is one Bluesky post a very short story?) so I’m reading lots of short stories too. 1/3
青山美智子ら『ほろよい読書』2023年
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The cover of the shinsho paperback on the question of ‘emotions’ from Plato to Arendt, by Shimizu Maki.
17 May 2025
2025年5月17日
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Saturday, Arendt day (or morning, as I’ve noted previously; it’s also concert day, but I digress.)
The HAC VRG continues with Life of the Mind’ which is sufficiently challenging in English, so I turn to Arendt in Japanese. 1/3
清水真木『感情とは何か』2014年
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The cover of today’s text, the 36 views of Mt Fuji, the illustrations of Hokusai, by Hinohara Kenji. The cover features the famous wave of Kanagawa.
16 May 2025
2025年5月16日
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Just sometimes I found myself waiting for a train just long enough to pause and look at the book selection at a kiosk on the platform* (*an olden day story for another time), and I’d realise I needed a book to read. 1/3
日野原健司(編)『北斎富嶽三十六景』2020年
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