When, in 1998, Natsuo Kirino published Out (or Auto, in Japanese), her third novel, the Western world was slow to react. Although the novel was welcomed with great reviews by…
Cesare Polenghi is an Italian-born researcher and professor who was born in 1968, Milano, Italy. His extensive career as a teacher in Japan and as a graduate and undergraduate student…
Eric A. Kimmel is an American award-winning children’s books author born in 1946 in Brooklyn, New York. He has published more than 50 books for children, many of which have…
Eric A. Kimmel is an American award-winning children’s books author born in 1946 in Brooklyn, New York. He has published more than 50 books for children, many of which have…
Eric A. Kimmel is an American award-winning children’s books author born in 1946 in Brooklyn, New York. He has published more than 50 books for children, many of which have…
The City of Ayutthaya is one of my favourite places in Thailand. I have been there on several occasions, both by myself and together with family and friends and I…
In 1997, Eric A. Kimmel, an American children’s book author, went to Japan at the invitation of a select few international schools that operate there and was so impressed with…
There are so many books out there that it’s impossible to read all the good ones in just one lifetime. This also raises another problem: that of rereading favourite books….
In its isolation – an archipelago surrounded by water – Medieval Japan was a world seemingly bizarre but coherent, receiving external interference with difficulty. Every event entering its natural boundaries,…
Abstract: Generative themes are topics of great interest to learners that can easily generate class discussion. In this paper I will present a way of teaching the young adult novel…