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I have recently become a big fan of TV drama "Hanako and Anne" aired daily on NHK, Japan's public broadcasting station. It is a story on a real woman who lived between end of 19th century and 1960's. The woman's name was MURAOKA Hanako. She was a translator who translated famous English books including "Anne of Green Gables" and "The Prince and the pauper." She was born in a poor family but she could attend most prestigious girls' school established by a Canadian Christian missionaries in Tokyo because of charity. She learned hi-society manner and English there. After she...

The novel was written by Japan's most notable novelist in 20th century, Endo Shusaku. Recently the news that Hollywood decided to make the story into film next year was reported. The setting of the story was early 17th century of Nagasaki, Japan when the government ruled ban on Chrisitianity and entry of foreigners except Chinese and Dutch. That policy was aimed to get rid of western...

Last month I attended my alma mater's alumni event in Tokyo. A lot of alumni living in Japan gathered at a restaurant exchanging memories and update information of the university. One faculty...

This is translation of Japanese novel on my Japanese blog site. The original title of the novel was "Nihon Danji wo Yamerarenai (Can't stop being Japanese traditionl man). A Candadin...

The title is Russian but it is Japanese film about two Japanese women who had a sexual relationship in 1920's. It means "Yuriko, Good-bye!." One of them is  Yoshiko Yuasa , who was a translator...