On April 3rd, the research library was visited by the Ambassador of Japan, Yukihiko Matsumura, and the cultural attaché, Ai Shimizu, to donate books to us as part of the “Read Japan 2023” project.
The aim of the “Read Japan” project is to promote understanding of Japan through books. To achieve this goal, English-language books related to Japan are donated to universities and libraries worldwide.
The newly donated books will soon be available to readers:
- History of art in Japan / Tsuji Nobuo translated by Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere
- No matter where the journey takes me: one man’s quest for a leprosy-free world / Yohei Sasakawa translated by Rei Muroji
- A modern history of Japan: from Tokugawa times to the present / Andrew Gordon
- The Japanese employment system: adapting to a new economic environment / Marcus Rebick
- My struggle against leprosy / Yohei Sasakawa Joint Program on Hansen’s Disease (Leprosy)
- A new history of Shinto / John Breen and Mark Teeuwen
- From Chinese Chan to Japanese Zen: a remarkable century of transmission and transformation / Steven Heine
- A cultural history of Japanese Buddhism / William E. Deal and Brian Ruppert
- Configurations of family in contemporary Japan / edited by Tomoko Aoyama, Laura Dales and Romit Dasgupta
- A history of popular culture in Japan: from the seventeenth century to the present / E. Taylor Atkins
