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Back Issues: 2001

#49
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JAPAN, ASIA, MURAKAMI RYU, AND JET DIVERSITY


 
 

KJ#49 presents fresh views of present-day Asia, with perceptive dispatches from resurgent mainland China, previously unpublished fiction from vanguard writer Murakami Ryu's latest novel/Japanese TV series (plus an exclusive interview with the author), and memorable personal encounters in Vietnam, Thailand, Korea, Mongolia and Japan.

A special photo-essay by Everett Brown reveals the amazing diversity of overseas participants in the JET program — Japan's mammoth intercultural educational project.

Central Asia analyst Gerald Larson probes the history and present prospects of the region’s religious politics; Tarun Tejpal discloses how his online journal Tehelka’s sting rocked India’s government and military. Impassioned Japanese activists speak out on child abuse, education reform, and social responsibility. And more: love haiku, opium reinterpreted in Thailand's Golden Triangle, Japan's new media celebrity writers, a Mexican poet in Japan circa 1901, and a Japanese expat community in Vladivostok before and after Japan fought Russia - and won. And more...
 

CONTENTS:

ENCOUNTERS: Looking for No-Gun Ri, Valerie Perry; Thailand - Music from Waste, Furukawa Setsuko; Vietnam - Shu's Story, Karen J. Coates, Mongolia - Big Horizon, Peter Berg; China - Life on the Frontier, Stephen Burns.
UNDERCURRENT: Tehelka.com: Internet Journalism's First Big Sting - Kathy Arlyn Sokol interviews Tarun Tejpal

ARTICLES: Kesa For the Millenium - a project by rozome artist Betsey Stirling Benjamin, by Linda Burman-Hall; Opium - New museum for an old problem, by Philip J. Cunningham; JET Portraits - Experiments in Internationalization, photo-essay by Everett Brown; Russian Connections - Meiji & Taisho era Japanese in Vladivostok, by Lucy Moss; Ryu & Me - an interview, sort of, by Ralph F. McCarthy; Educational Reforms? - a Japanese mother's response, by Tanaka Aiko; Facing the Truth or Saving Face - Japan struggles with child abuse, by Sherry Nakanishi; Nusari, by Keibo Oiwa and Minamata fisherman Ogata Masato; Mid-Autumn in the Middle Kingdom - Philip J. Cunningham on China's separate peace; Religious and Political Roots of the Central Asian Crisis - Gerald Larson speaks on partition vs critical discourse; The Nakazuri Stories - celebrity writers ride the rails, by T.M. Jaques; Revitalizing History - Patricia Wakida on the making of Only What We Could Carry

POETRY: Love Haiku - a selection by Paricia Donegan; Jose Juan Tablada - a Mexican poet in Meiji Japan, by D.M. Stroud

FICTION: An extract from The Last Family, a new novel by Murakami Ryu, translated by Ralph F. McCarthy; The Revolving Lanterns of Tokyo, by Wada Makoto, translated by Funky Joe.

REVIEWS: A House in Bali; Only What We Could Carry, Topaz Moon: Chiura Obata's Art of the Internment;Spirited Away(New Miyazaki Hayao anime) and more...

RAMBLE: True Destinations by Robert Brady

 
SOLD OUT Photocopy: $10 / 1,000 yen 

Theme Issues

Street, Just Deeds, Transience, Media in Asia, Time, Transforming Conflict, Inaka, Orthodoxy & Heresy, Word, Sacred Mountains of Asia, The Death & Resurrection of Kyoto, Radicalism of Cultural Continuity, Neighborhoods, Allure of the Exotic, Kyoto Speaks, Eros, Japan in the Year 2020


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