Private Creative Writing Lesson

October 9 to November 1 A parent-and-child exhibition by Aisei Inukai and Ritsu Kakutani (S-kun) will be held at Hon Hitoshizuku in Seto, Aichi Prefecture. Please see Instagram for details!

This is the second installment of Henri Ohara and Ruko's love-of-reading talk. The two unabashed book obsessives will once again gush about their passion for reading — from the one book that hooked them, to favorite authors, when and where they read, their reading histories, and recent recommendations. Chances are you'll start looking at the unread stacks in your room with new fondness! A signing will be held after the talk.

Theme: '(TBD)' Zindies editorial meetings are gatherings of people who make Zindies, held in a corner of a bookstore or café. Although they're called "meetings," some sessions end up as casual chats. There's little structure or agenda, but there will probably be seats. At the editorial meeting we do things like: ・Talk about and make decisions on various matters related to Zindies. If you'd like to do something together, please come. ・Consult on how to create and distribute ZINEs. If you want to make one but don't know how, bring that feeling; if you already make them, bring a copy you're proud of. You won't be forced to speak. It's fine to come just to watch people who make Zindies talk. You can arrive and leave partway through. People who come can call themselves members of the Zindies editorial team from that day (one of the few perks). You can drop in without a reservation, but if you think you might come, pressing "Join" will make the organizers happy.

We will hold a talk event to celebrate the publication of publishing journalist Kazufumi Iida's new book, 'The Myth of Declining Reading Comprehension Among Young People', published by Shueisha International.

A reporter for the mass-circulation paper "Nagoya Times" will talk about a different side of Nagoya's back pages from the Showa and Heisei eras that he captured. Lecturer: Naoki Kito (former Editor-in-Chief, "Nagoya Times") Lecturer profile Naoki Kito Born November 1946 in Nagoya. Graduated from Waseda University, First Faculty of Law, in March 1969. He joined the Nagoya Times in February of the same year. Assigned to the news reporting division (social affairs), he covered police rounds around Nagoya, worked as a roving reporter, covered the courts, and reported on municipal administration. He served as Editor-in-Chief from 1998 to 2007. He retired in October 2008 when the paper suspended publication.