# Yasunari Kawabata

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T.R.Reid and How to Ski Japan!

In a tribute to the 2026 Winter Olympics being held right now in Cortina, Italy, Amy takes up a discussion of skiing in Japan. Japan has hosted the Winter Olympics 2 times: 1972 (Sapporo) and 1998 (Nagano). Amy introduces previous Washington Post Tokyo Bureau Chief T.R. Reid's guidebook called Ski …

Episode 107: The "Ghost" Subject - Why Japan's Most Famous Sentence Cannot Be Translated

Free seminar for adult Japanese learners: ⁠⁠⁠https://shop.funjapaneselearning.com/2609smj-pod/⁠⁠⁠ Why busy adults struggle to speak Japanese — and the 3-step cycle that helps you start using it. Japanese is more than words and grammar. It is a way of seeing and relating to the world.---------------…

Elite Student's Free Therapy Exploitation Scandal | The Izu Dancer

https://youtu.be/dfmbJDvUTag Welcome to Kokugo Taiwa, where we completely dismantle Yasunari Kawabata's classic masterpiece, The Izu Dancer!Watch as our wholesome MC (armed with strict moral standards and common sense) and our gamer-brained analyst review this supposedly heartwarming narrative from…

Yasunari Kawabata

In this episode, we're taking a look at Yasunari Kawabata's life and work. As we tell his story, we'll ask ourselves two big questions.  Is Kawabata really a traditionalist?  And what is up with the way he writes about adolescent girls? cw: author suicide, problematic imagery about adolescent girl…

Meg Rosoff and Sara Pascoe

Harriett Gilbert is joined by her guests - writer, Meg Rosoff and comedian, Sara Pascoe - to discuss favourite books by Lynn Barber, Yasunari Kawabata and Ayn Rand. Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata Publisher: Penguin Classics The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand Publisher: Penguin An Education by Lynn B…

Bookstore Discoveries From Japan

After a three-week journey through Japan, Cassandra returns with a suitcase full of book recommendations and a deeper appreciation for Japanese storytelling. The books grapple with themes from high stakes competitions and childhood friendships to memory, impermanence, and the search for meaning. Al…

Something Borrowed, Something Gifted

The Rainbow by Yasunari Kawabata, Bat Eater by Kylie Lee Baker, The Silence In Between by Josie Ferguson and Sailor Moon Vol. 1 by Naoko Takeuchi. BONUS: Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes.

The Way of Tea: On Purpose, Presence, and What's Actually Worth Dedicating Your Life To with Ian Chun

I'm joined this week by my new friend and fellow JET program alum Ian Chun, founder of Yunomi.life, a global tea e-commerce business based in Tokyo that offers the world's largest selection of Japanese tea and bridges the cultural and linguistic barriers separating Japanese tea farmers from enthusi…