Tsukuba’s Famous Architect
A Japanese architect from Tsukuba City will be on TV tonight (January 23, 2008). Akita is an award-winning architect with many interesting designs mostly in the Ibaraki, Tokyo, and Karuizawa areas. The company’s main office is in Tokyo but there is a research lab here in Tsukuba with foreign staff.
The show will be on from 6:55pm on Channel 6 (TBS). If you have time and are interested in seeing the residences of actors/actresses, then you might be interested in watching the show. Mr. Akita will be the design trend consultant for the show.
Also, for those Tsukuba residents who have some architectural projects in mind (new construction, renovation, property purchase) you can contact the office in both English and Japanese.
Print This Post
University of Tsukuba Grad wins Akutagawa Prize
Nanae Aoyama only turned 24 in January, but already she has won literary prizes for each of the two books she has published.
But she hasn't just won any old literary prizes. Her latest, awarded in January for her second novel, "Hitori Biyori (Being Alone)," was the Akutagawa Prize -- the most prestigious in Japan -- which is named after the great early 20th-century novelist Ryunosuke Akutagawa.
Print This Post
Win a Free Subscription to Being a Broad Magazine
Being A Broad (BAB) is "a support and information network for foreign women living in Japan. Established by Caroline Pover in 1997, Being A Broad has supported thousands of women during their lives overseas, through a magazine, a best-selling book, events, seminars, speeches, and the BAB website."
The BAB discussion forum has recently been updated and Caroline has offered to give free subscriptions to "Being a Broad Magazine" to people who post more than 50 times in the new forum. I'm not sure when the contest will end, but if you are a foreign woman in Japan, you will likely find the forum useful even if you don't win anything!
Right now it seems that there aren't many members from Tsukuba. If you do decide to join the forum, please introduce yourself in the "In Tsukuba" thread so we can find each other. (You can also send me a private message or an email through the forum to let me know that you have joined.)
Print This Post