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SUMMARY:Monkey Business: New Writing from Japan Vol.7 - Book Launch!
DESCRIPTION:To celebrate the launch of Monkey Business Volume 7\, the Monkey Business team will gather in the Japan Foundation\, Toronto Event Hall with four special guest authors. The event is a cross-cultural discussion between the Canadian and Japanese authors: \n  \nSatoshi Kitamura (Tokyo) is an award-winning author and illustrator of children’s books and graphica. His books include When Sheep Cannot Sleep\, My Hand\, and Lily Takes a Walk. He has collaborated with numerous writers and poets\, notably in The Young Inferno\, a retelling of Dante’s Inferno\, with John Agard. \nAoko Matsuda (Tokyo) has published four collections of short stories and two books of essays. Her work in translation has been published in Granta and in Monkey Business. Her chapbook The Girl Who Is Getting Married was published in the UK. She is also the Japanese translator for the American author Karen Russell; she has translated Russell’s St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves and Vampires in the Lemon Grove. \nHelen Guri (Montreal) is the author of Match\, which was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry\, as well as poetry chapbooks Here Come the Waterworks and Microphone Lessons for Poets. Her poems and essays have been published in Canada\, the U.S.\, and Australia. Based in Montreal\, she edits poetry for Book Thug and Brick Books. \nRui Umezawa (Toronto) is a storyteller\, essayist and novelist. Born in Tokyo\, he grew up in Europe and North America. His novel\, The Truth About Death and Dying\, called “a dazzling tour-de-force” by Canadian Literature\, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Book Prize for Best First Book (Canada and the Caribbean). Strange Light Afar: Tales of the Supernatural from Old Japan was named a CBC Best Book of the Year in 2015. \nMotoyuki Shibata and Ted Goossen\, the editors of Monkey Business: New Writing from Japan\, will also be on hand to facilitate the panel discussion and participate in discussion. \n\n \nWhat is Monkey Business?\nSince its first issue in 2011\, Monkey Business: New Writing from Japan has showcased the best of contemporary Japanese literature. Monkey Business features the short fiction and poetry of writers such as Hideo Furukawa\, Mina Ishikawa\, Hiromi Ito\, Mieko Kawakami\, Sachiko Kishimoto\, Hiromi Kawakami\, Aoko Matsuda\, and Yoko Ogawa; interviews and essays by writers such as Haruki Murakami; new translations of the work of earlier writers such as Rampo Edogawa\, Kafu Nagai\, and Soseki Natsume; and graphic stories by Satoshi Kitamura and the Brother and Sister Nishioka. \nCreating a bridge between Japanese and American writers and the audiences that love them\, Monkey Business also features work by American\, British\, and Canadian writers\, including Paul Auster\, Rebecca Brown\, Charles Simic\, Stuart Dybek\, Brian Evenson\, Laird Hunt\, Ben Katchor\, Kelly Link\, Eric McCormack\, Matthew Sharpe\, and more! For many of the Monkey Business launch events\, writers from Tokyo and writers in the U.S. and Canada have the chance to read each other’s work and then participate in dynamic and often mind-cracking dialogue across cultures. Sometimes a new story develops out of this rich brew: Kevin Brockmeier’s “Continental Drift” was inspired by Mina Ishikawa’s tanka\, Satoshi Kitamura’s graphic story “Variation and Theme” was inspired by a poem by Charles Simic. \nMonkey Business participates annually in PEN America’s PEN World Voices Festival in New York. Monkey Business has also participated in the International Festival of Authors (IFOA) in Toronto\, Tokyo International Literary Festival\, and Japan Now in London\, UK\, among others. \nMonkey Business tours across North America with writers from Tokyo. In Asia\, Monkey Business has traveled to Singapore\, Malaysia\, Indonesia\, and the Philippines. \nMonkey Business is the in-translation offspring of the Tokyo-based magazine MONKEY\, founded by Motoyuki Shibata\, one of Japan’s most highly regarded men of letters and acclaimed translator of American fiction. Selections for each issue are made by Shibata and Ted Goossen\, one of the leading translators of Japanese fiction working today. \nMonkey Business is published with the generous support of the Nippon Foundation. The Brooklyn-based literary journal A Public Space is the U.S. partner of Monkey Business. \nMore on Monkey Business here >
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LOCATION:The Japan Foundation\, Toronto\, 2 Bloor St. East\, 3rd Floor\, Toronto\, ON\, M4W 1A8\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Indigenous Cultures in Japan and Canada
DESCRIPTION:Both Japan and Canada have diverse Indigenous communities with rich cultures and traditions. Join us in the Japan Foundation\, Toronto Event Hall for presentations and a panel discussion among members and supporters of Indigenous groups from both countries who will gather to share\, discuss\, and celebrate their unique heritage. \nTo start things off\, Mr. Ken’ichi Homma\, Director General of the Hokkaido Government Iburi General Subprefectural Bureau will give a talk on this fascinating region of Hokkaido in northern Japan\, its history\, contemporary developments\, and tourism opportunities. Further information about tourism in the region will also be made available during the evening. Following the talk\, a panel discussion will take place. \nRegistration is now closed. We thank everyone for their interest. \nPanelists include: \nMr. Yasuhiko TODA\, Mayor of Shiraoi Town\, Hokkaido\nYasuhiko Toda is mayor of Shiraoi town. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Sapporo University in 1991. He started his career as a businessman and afterwards he became a director of Shiraoi Chamber of Commerce. He was elected as a mayor of Shiraoi town for the first time in 2011. He is now in his second term of office. \nMs. Miyuki MURAKI\, Executive Director of the Ainu Museum in Shiraoi Town\nMiyuki Muraki was born in Shiraoi town\, Hokkaido. She started working at the Ainu Museum in 1985\, and has been the Vice-President since 2012. Along with taking part in handing down the traditional Ainu culture of the Shiraoi region\, including song and dance\, beliefs and customs\, and food culture\, she also conducts research on the material culture\, etc. of the Ainu people. At the Ainu Museum she is in charge of areas such as training  as well as educational promotion projects\, and people refer to her as “the singing\, dancing curator.” Presently\, she is writing a column for the JR Hokkaido onboard magazine\, “THE JR Hokkaido.” \nMr. Michael Etherington\, Cultural Program Manager of the Native Canadian Centre of Toronto\nInfluenced by his northern upbringing\, Michael has always stayed connected to community\, spending much of his personal time volunteering as a speaker to schools\, colleges\, and universities. This\, along with his experience as Cultural Program Manager of the Native Canadian Centre of Toronto\, and trainer for the Ontario Federation of Indigenous Friendship Centres\, have garnered Michael the personal and professional recognition as a valued speaker. With family roots and heritage from James Bay\, ON\, but growing up in the urban setting\, Etherington is a proud yet humbled Indigenous speaker and representative of Omushkego-Culture. Michael attributes his speaking messages to his experiences growing up both on-reserve and off-reserve. \nand Mr. Koko Kikuchi as moderator\nKoko Kikuchi was born in Iwate Prefecture in Japan\, and earned his bachelor’s degree from Waseda University. In 1982 he graduated with a Master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planing from the University of Toronto. He became a permanent resident of Canada in 1986\, and while running a consulting firm he also volunteered his time towards international exchange for the betterment of children’s rights and the Japanese-Canadian community. In 1991\, as a committee member for inviting Ainu people\, he invited Mr. Shigeru Kayano\, who later went on to serve in the Japanese House of Councillors\, to visit Toronto from Nibutani\, Hokkaido to hold a workshop on the shared history\, social issues\, folklore\, etc. of the Ainu people of Japan and indigenous peoples of Canada at the Earth Spirit Festival. Since then\, Mr. Kikuchi has gone on to do things such as interview Mr. Kayano regarding the passing of the New Ainu Law and share information about the indigenous peoples of Canada in the Iwate Nippo Newspaper. \nThis event is organized in association with JNTO (Japan National Tourism Organization)
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