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LIBRARY

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SPORTS
Sep 2, 2020
Sports museum launches initiative to protect Japan's athletic history
The move by the Prince Chichibu Memorial Sports Museum and Library comes after the first Olympic medal won by a Japanese athlete was discovered to be missing.
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JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Dec 25, 2017
GHQ photographer's color shots offer rare insights on postwar Japan
The National Diet Library in Tokyo caught attention this autumn when it published color photos taken immediately after the end of World War II by a staffer at the General Headquarters (GHQ).
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LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Nov 13, 2017
Blue Sky Books is a literary treasure trove
Aozora Bunko is an electric internet library that contains works of literature in the public domain.
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JAPAN
May 17, 2017
Gifu bathhouse-turned-library showcasing 20,000 used comic books a hit among locals
A small comic book library set up over 20 years ago in a mountainous area of Gifu Prefecture has proven to be a popular embodiment of the spirit of recycling, as well as of people's love for comics.
JAPAN / Society
Mar 26, 2017
New Kindai University library aims to lure manga lovers to academic works
A university in western Japan will open a library next month that has an unusually large proportion of manga in its collection, school officials say.
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WORLD
May 19, 2016
U.S. returns to Italy stolen 1493 Columbus letter on Americas discovery
The United States has returned to Italy a rare copy of a letter Christopher Columbus wrote in 1493 describing his discovery of the Americas, after the document was stolen more than 25 years ago and replaced with a forgery.
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JAPAN / History
Apr 24, 2015
Photo possibly of John Manjiro, first Japanese to live in U.S., with skipper found in Massachusetts library
An unpublished photo of a man who could be Nakahama Manjiro (1827-1898), the first Japanese known to have lived in the United States, has been found at a public library in Massachusetts.
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JAPAN
Sep 24, 2014
Library at evacuee school gets cardboard makeover
The library at a school near the radiation exclusion zone in Fukushima Prefecture has received an unusual makeover that aims to fuel readers' imaginations.
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JAPAN
Jun 13, 2014
'Crowdfunding' readers back 'library bar,' request a book each
When 30-year-old book lover Shunsuke Mori decided to open a "library bar" in Tokyo, he took a leap of faith to solicit funds over the Internet.
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COMMUNITY / Issues / LEARNING CURVE
Apr 6, 2014
Read up on ways that can help us learn English
Public libraries are important community resources across Japan, but while English is taught from fifth grade, those hoping to find a ready stash of English-language reading material may be disappointed.
JAPAN
Mar 17, 2014
City preserves 500 Asian films
Closely tied to the Asian continent due its location, the southwestern city of Fukuoka has collected films made by Asian directors over the past 20 years and now boasts some 500 titles.
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LIFE / Travel / BACKSTREET STORIES
Feb 22, 2014
Arisugawa-no-Miya's no mere people's park
Tokyo's weather in February is unpredictable, so when the day I have set aside for exploring features a record-breaking blizzard, I'm not surprised. So, bundled up like Everest conqueror Edmund Hillary, I exit Hiroo Station in Minato Ward to find the air feathered with swirling flakes and the streets already hushed by drifts. I might as well be on the moon.
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CULTURE / Art
Jul 8, 2013
Propaganda: artifice by design
The word "propaganda" derives its modern use from the name of a 17th-century Roman Catholic institution, the Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda Fide, or Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith. Established during the Thirty Years War (1618-1648, a sectarian conflict that devastated Europe following the Protestant Reformation), it housed a college that trained priests to advance Church dogma on a divided continent.
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LIFE / Travel
Dec 20, 2009
Alexandria's library: A phoenix amid the tea fields of Uji
Recalling the glorious Heian Period in Japan's history from 794 to 1185 at once conjures up images of a world of courtiers, 12-layered kimono, elegant poetry competitions beside winding streams — and secret trysts in scented chambers.
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / CLOSE-UP
Jun 1, 2008
Arata Isozaki: Astonishing by design
If the entire Japanese architectural fraternity was one big royal family, then Arata Isozaki would be a king approaching the end of a long and glorious reign.

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