Past events

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).

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 those who want to start writing tanka or have just begun. Why not try composing tanka together? Please feel free to join us. The organizer is tanka poet Miyako Asai, who received the Mahiruno Prize. If you wish to participate, please compose one tanka and email it to [email protected] by July 1. Don't forget to include your name. Beginners are welcome to try composing in the 5-7-5-7-7 rhythm.

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.

Host: Tete Co-host: NAgoyaBOOKCENTER Tete works in sales and is a book lover who reads about 200 books a year. She reads novels, essays, non-fiction, and whatever books catch her interest at the time. This reading group warmly welcomes book lovers, of course, as well as those who have just started reading but are unsure what to choose, or people who don't have fellow book lovers around to talk about books with. Would you like to have a relaxed chat about books? Please feel free to join us. ＊NAgoyaBOOKCENTER does not tolerate any form of discrimination or violent behavior/language＊

"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!

An easy-to-understand talk about how Nagoya's yūkaku changed over time, including explanations of relevant terms. The lecturer is the Tokai Yūri History Research Group.

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.

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.

This is a tanka class for beginners — from people trying tanka for the first time to those who have tried composing a few poems. The instructor is Miyako Asai, a tanka poet who has received the Mahiru-no Prize. Please feel free to join us.

To commemorate the publication of Kozue Arakawa's first tanka collection 'Hi o Yoseru' (Bringing the Fire Closer), we will hold a talk and signing event.

This is a talk event where book lovers Henri Ohara and Ruko talk at length about their love of reading. Enjoy the conversation between the two, who read widely across genres. After the event there will be a signing session with both of them.

We will hold a talk and signing event to celebrate the publication of "Awoharism: A Selection of Early Tanka by Hiroyuki Ogihara", published by Sayusha.

A history talk event by Seishiro Mizuno, a history writer born and based in Nagoya. He will present a new theory on the Battle of Okehazama.

Seven groups will be exhibiting in the gallery on the 2nd floor of Nagoya BOOK CENTER!

A talk and signing event to commemorate the publication of 'The Flamingo on the Silver Rink', the new book by Nagoya-based author Noran Nijino.

This is a talk and signing event with mystery writer Tadashi Ota, who publishes the micro-novel zine 'Arifureta Houseki'.

Ruko, who has become engrossed in day labor jobs, working in over 250 different places because of the joy of meeting new people every day, will listen to your labor-related concerns! If you have any issues to discuss, please send your work-related worries anonymously from the 'inquiry' section when signing up. Ruko will think them over together with you on the day.

A talk event by Masahiro Okada, author of "Caregiving Murmurs"

A service to visualize ZINEs being created across Japan, along with their creators and the shops or events that distribute them, aiming to create new encounters between you and ZINEs. ZINDIES is starting! The planners and developers will talk about the goals of this new service.

It is a talk event by Yuzuha Hosaka. Participation fee is 500 yen, with a capacity of 20 people. Please bring one recommended paperback book.

A talk event to celebrate the publication of Tomomi Hayashi's first solo book 'Living Gently: Shape of Happiness,' hosted by the personality of the radio welfare program 'With Tomomi.' General: 1000 yen + 1 drink, Librarians, Booksellers, Students: 500 yen + 1 drink

The NHK New Project X broadcast stirred a significant response on the false charge incident, the Shiga Respirator Case, with reporters from Chunichi Shimbun persistently uncovering the truth behind the crime committed by a national institution. We will hear an in-depth account from those directly involved.

We will hear from Professor Nachi Inoue, a full-time lecturer at Kinki University (Library and Information Science), about copyright issues to be aware of when making ZINES. Participation fee: 1000 yen.

Latest information on children's ADHD treatment presented by Dr. Shuichi Kato. Admission fee: 500 yen per person, accompanying family members and children are free.

We will talk with Ruko-san, who left a company she joined as a new graduate and got deeply involved in daily part-time jobs through Timee, working at 180 different places in a year. Participation fee is 1000 yen. Sign up here: https://peatix.com/event/4671292