The 4th Nagoya Ekinishi Literary Marche

This is a talk and signing event with Kenji Kuroda, who will publish his new book 'Perfect Locked-Room Matryoshka: Mystery in the Mystery' with 星海社FICTIONS in June.\nHe will speak at length about his latest work and about Nagoya as a puzzle-solving city.

This is a tanka gathering for beginners. The host is Chiharu Itō, supported by Satsuki Suzuki. If you would like to participate, please compose one tanka on the theme 'Nagoya' in advance (it's OK whether or not you explicitly include 'Nagoya' in the poem) and email it to [email protected] ⇨ Please send your email to the Ekinishi Small Tanka Gathering (by July 10).

We will welcome Kumiko Shindo, the leading authority on Fusae Ichikawa studies who recently published 'A Biographical Study of Fusae Ichikawa', and ask her about what she wanted to convey to readers through her research on Fusae Ichikawa, the most prominent postwar politician to come from Aichi Prefecture. The interviewer will be journalist Keiko Yamamoto, a former NHK commentator.

Professor 野口武悟 (Aoyama Gakuin University, Library and Information Science), a leading researcher in reading accessibility, and 藤坂康司, a former library director and now bookstore staff who helped realize a library that's more than just a place to borrow books together with citizens and librarians, will have an in-depth conversation about the possibilities of libraries that can only be understood through practice and about the potential for books that reading accessibility brings.

This is the first comic convention held in the Mikawa region in October 2025. Comic convention + Mikawa = 'Komikawa'. The event is scheduled to be held in October 2026. More details will be provided later.

A ZINE event held in Nagoya. January 11, 2027, 11:00–16:00 at Fukiage Hall, 2nd Floor, 1st Fashion Exhibition Hall. Admission fee: 500 yen. Exhibitors are being recruited; tables and chairs are provided. Information about exhibitor plans and fees, move-in and prohibited items, and requests for operational assistance (help on the day) is posted.