Category: James Au Kin-Pong
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่ถ FIRST IMPRESSIONS ่ถ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “Beyond First Love: Family Trauma and the Search for Connection in Rio Shimamotoโs First Love” by James Kin Pong Au Click HERE to read all entries in Chaon First Love.…
![[ESSAY] “Beyond First Love: Family Trauma and the Search for Connection in Rio Shimamotoโs ๐น๐๐๐ ๐ก ๐ฟ๐๐ฃ๐” by James Kin Pong Au](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Rio-Shimamoto-First-Love.png)
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่ถ FIRST IMPRESSIONS ่ถ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] โFamily, Failure, and Historical Memory in Sagisawa Megumuโs The Running Boy and Other Storiesโ by James Kin Pong Au Sagisawa Megumu (author), Tyran Grillo (translator). The Running Boy and Other…
![[REVIEW] โFamily, Failure, and Historical Memory in Sagisawa Megumuโs ๐โ๐ ๐
๐ข๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ต๐๐ฆ ๐๐๐ ๐๐กโ๐๐ ๐๐ก๐๐๐๐๐ โ by James Auย Kin-Pong](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/cornellpress.cornell.edubook9781501749896the-running-boy-and-other-stories.jpg)
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่ถ FIRST IMPRESSIONS ่ถ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] โMariko Nagaiโs Imaginary Death: The Genre-Bending Architecture of Wartime Testimonyโ by James Auย Kin-Pong Mariko Nagai, Imaginary Death, Punctum Books, 2025. 297 pgs. It is difficult to determine the genre to…
![[REVIEW] โMariko Nagaiโs ๐ผ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ฆ ๐ท๐๐๐กโ: The Genre-Bending Architecture of Wartime Testimonyโ by James Auย Kin-Pong](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/imaginary-death-mariko-nagai.png)
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๐ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS๐ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Cho Nam-joo. Cho Nam-Joo (author), Jamie Chang (translator), Saha: A Novel, Liveright, 2023. 161 pgs. Cho Nam-Jooโs Saha: A Novel (ใ์ฌํ๋งจ์ ใ, 2019) presents a dystopian…
![[REVIEW] โNarrating the Margins of the Future: Cho Nam-Jooโs ๐๐โ๐โ by James Auย Kin-Pong](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/cho-nam-joos-saha.jpg)
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๐ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS๐ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Idol, Burning. Rin Usami (author), Asa Yoneda (translator), Idol, Burning, Canongate, 2022. 96 pgs. Rin Usamiโs Idol, Burning (ใๆจใใ็ใใ, 2020) offers an incisive exploration of…
![[REVIEW] “Belief, Devotion, and Estrangement in Rin Usamiโs ๐ผ๐๐๐, ๐ต๐ข๐๐๐๐๐” by James Au Kin-Pong](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/idol-burning-canongate.jpg)
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๐ย RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS๐ย RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Clickย HERE to readย all entries inย Chaย onย The Woman in the Purple Skirt. Natsuko Imamura (author), Lucy North (translator),ย The Woman in the Purple Skirt, Penguin Random House, 2021. 224 pgs. In Natsuko…
![[REVIEW] โLingering Suspense: Natsuko Imamura’s ๐โ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐กโ๐ ๐๐ข๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐กโ BY James Kin Pong Au](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/the-woman-in-the-purple-skirt.jpg)
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๐ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS๐ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Osamu Dazai (author), Sam Bett (translator), The Flowers of Buffoonery, New Directions, 2023. 63 pgs. The Flowers of Buffoonery (ใ้ๅใฎ่ฏใ/ Dลke no Hana), an early work by Osamu Dazai…
![[REVIEW] โConstructing a Performative Self: Osamu Dazai’s ๐โ๐ ๐น๐๐๐ค๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ต๐ข๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ฆโ by James Kin Pong Au](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/the-flowers-of-buffoonery.jpg)
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๐ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS๐ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Touring the Land of the Dead. Maki Kashimada (author), Haydn Trowell (translator), Touring the Land of the Dead (and Ninety-Nine Kisses), Europa Editions, 2021.…
![[REVIEW] โA Profound Exploration of RealityโMaki Kashimadaโs ๐๐๐ข๐๐๐๐ ๐กโ๐ ๐ฟ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐กโ๐ ๐ท๐๐๐: ๐๐ค๐ ๐๐๐ฃ๐๐๐๐๐ โ by James Kin Pong Au](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/touring-the-land-of-the-dead-and-ninety-nine-kiss.jpg)
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๐ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS๐ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on People from My Neighbourhood. Hiromi Kawakami (author), Ted Goossen (translator), People from My Neighbourhood, Granta Books, 2021. 96 pgs. The world depicted in Kawakami…
![[REVIEW] โCoexistence of the Familiar and the Unfamiliar: Hiromi Kawakami’s ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ฆ ๐๐๐๐โ๐๐๐ข๐โ๐๐๐โ by James Kin-Pong Au](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/people-from-my-neighbourhood.jpg)
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๐ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS๐ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Tanizaki Junโichirล (author), Anthony H. Chambers & Paul McCarthy (translators), Longing and Other Stories, Columbia University Press, 2022. 145 pgs. Tanizaki Junโichirลโs Longing and Other Stories, translated by Anthony…
![[REVIEW] โClash of Ideas: Tanizaki Junโichirล’s ๐ฟ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐กโ๐๐ ๐๐ก๐๐๐๐๐ ” BY JAMES KIN-PONG AU](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/longing-and-other-stories_cha.png)
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} {This review is cross-posted on Agora.} Donald Keene and Shiba Ryลtarล (authors), Tony Gonzalez (translator), Edo Japan Encounters the World: Conversations Between Donald Keene and Shiba Ryotaro, Japan Library, 2018. 137 pgs.…
![[REVIEW] โAn Intellectual Exchange: A Review of ๐ธ๐๐ ๐ฝ๐๐๐๐ ๐ธ๐๐๐๐ข๐๐ก๐๐๐ ๐กโ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐โ by James Kin Pong Au](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/edo-japan-encounters-the-world-conversations-between-donald-keene-and-shiba-ryotaro.png)
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Takashina Shลซji (author), Matt Treyvaud (translator), Japanese Art in Perspective: East-West Encounters, Japan Library, 2021. 191 pgs. An amateur of Japanese art might have heard about ukiyo-e (or floating painting), as well…
![[REVIEW] “(Re)formation of Ideas: ๐ฝ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐ด๐๐ก ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ก๐๐ฃ๐” by James Au Kin-Pong](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/japanese-art-in-perspective-east-west-encounters.jpeg)
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Yลซ Miri (author), Morgan Giles (translator), Tokyo Ueno Station, Tilted Axis Press, 2021. 197 pgs. Though hosting the Olympic Games has often been seen as an attempt by governments to boost the…
![[REVIEW] “The Plight of the Homeless in Japan: A Review of Yลซ Miri’s ๐๐๐๐ฆ๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ก๐๐ก๐๐๐” by James Au Kin-Pong](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/tokyouenostation-2.jpg)
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{Written by James Au Kin-Pong, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Minae Mizumura (author), Juliet Winters Carpenter (translator; in collaboration with the author), An I-Novel, Columbia University Press, 2021. 325 pgs.…
![[REVIEW] “Pursuing Her Japanese Identity: A Review of Minae Mizumura’s An I-Novel” by James Au Kin-Pong](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/an-i-novel-minae-mizumura-cha-an-asian-literary-journal.png)
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{Written by James Au Kin-pong, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.}ย {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Steven D. Carter, How to Read a Japanese Poem, Columbia University Press, 2019. 317 Pgs. How to Read a…
![[REVIEW] “A Diversity of Poems: A review of Steven D. Carter’s ๐ป๐๐ค ๐ก๐ ๐
๐๐๐ ๐ ๐ฝ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐” by James Au Kin-pong](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/how-to-read-a-japanese-poem-1.jpg)
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{Written by James Au Kin-Pong, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.}ย {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Jun’ichirล Tanizaki (author), Phyllis I. Lyons (translator), In Black and White, Columbia University Press, 2018. 256 pgs.…
![[REVIEW] “Between Fiction and Reality: Jun’ichirล Tanizaki’s In Black and White” by James Au Kin-Pong](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/in-black-and-white1.jpg)