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Upcoming & In Progress ZINE Events

Past ZINE Events
  • June 2026
  • Jun
    16
    Tue

    Private Creative Writing Lessons

    We regularly hold literary creative writing workshops in Nagoya. Currently, the group critique-style classes (two classes) are full, but we are offering private lessons. Some slots are already taken, but there are still openings. ○ You’ve written a manuscript for a ZINE or for submissions to open calls and would like someone to give you feedback. ○ You prefer one-on-one lessons rather than group critique sessions. ○ You want the motivation that a deadline provides. If any of the above applies to you, please consider joining 🙏
  • Jun
    20
    Sat

    Didn't Know Nagoya! We'll Tell You — Publication Talk & Signing for 'Nagoya Shiranakatta Gaya Travelogue'

    Covered streams, kappa, water-distribution towers and water-supply towers, roof deities — introducing the slightly unusual scenes and endearing things hidden in everyday life in and around Nagoya.
    4 participants
  • Jun
    21
    Sun

    Japan Junior High School Newspaper — Daiji Kawanaka Talk & Signing Session: How Can Politics Become a Personal Matter?

    We will welcome Daiji Kawanaka, a reporter who has attracted attention as a journalist for the Japan Junior High School Newspaper, and hear his thoughts on citizens and politics.
    10 participants
  • Jun
    27
    Sat

    Creative Writing Class — Private Lesson

    Same as June 16.
  • Jun
    27
    Sat

    【Sold out】Introduction to Yūkaku for Beginners — Focusing on the history of Nakamura Yūkaku — Session 1: Nagoya Yūkaku History ① From the Early Modern to the Modern Period

    An easy-to-understand talk on how Nagoya's yūkaku changed over time, including explanations of terminology. Lecturer: Tokai Pleasure-Quarter History Study Group
  • July 2026
  • Jul
    3
    Fri

    What Were Bookstores? — Chasing Booksellers Across the Sea — Winner of the 38th Tetsuro Watsuji Cultural Award (General Category)

    "The Bookstores of the Empire" — To commemorate winning the 38th Tetsuro Watsuji Cultural Award (General Category), Nagoya University will hold a talk and signing event with Professor Yoshitaka Hibi!
    2 participants
  • Jul
    8
    Wed

    Toward a society where books reach the people who will need them even 10 years from now

    Hiroshi Tanaka, who has had a wide-ranging career at Bungeishunju—from a weekly magazine reporter to marketing—will investigate the current state of bookstores and discuss with participants the future of bookstores that emerges from that investigation.
    7 participants
  • Jul
    25
    Sat

    What the author wanted to convey in writing 'A Biographical Study of Fusae Ichikawa' — Lecture by Professor Kumiko Shindo

    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.
    3 participants
  • August 2026
  • Aug
    1
    Sat

    【Sign language interpretation available】 Let's talk about libraries and bookstores — 野口武悟✖︎藤坂康司 — This is a library that's more than just a place to borrow books; making reading barrier-free can save bookstores

    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.
    5 participants
  • Aug
    8
    Sat

    Birth of Poet Noriko Ibaraki: The Girl from Nishio — Commemorative Lecture for the Publication by Makoto Kumagai

    This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Nishio-born poet Noriko Ibaraki. We will welcome Makoto Kumagai, principal of Anjo Gakuen High School, who has published "Poet Noriko Ibaraki: The Girl from Nishio" (Fubaisha), and hear him speak about the book. The interviewer will be Keiko Yamamoto, a former NHK commentator and journalist.
  • September 2026
  • Sep
    5
    Sat

    10 Things People Involved with Books Should Consider in a World Where 90% Don’t Read Many Books

    Isn't today's publishing world becoming a kind of “print macho”? Reading only in printed characters—difficult words and kanji—is not the only form of reading. By expanding ways of reading beyond the conventional frame of “reading”—comics, graphic works, audiobooks, etc.—we can lower the barriers to reading and increase readership. We will hold a talk and signing event to celebrate the publication of publishing journalist Kazufumi Iida's latest book, "An Introduction to 'Yuru Reading' for 90% of Japanese."