Easy Japanese news in translation: Tokyo library features 'train seats' after renovations

A "train seat" area has been introduced at Kami ikebukuro Library in Tokyo's Toshima Ward, which reopened on June 6 following ...

Japan university library opens 'Apple Shelf' to support people facing hardships

A university in this western Japan city has set up a permanent bookshelf called the "Apple Shelf" in its library to create a ...
Orange County Register

Library helps Irvine Japanese community stay connected with culture

The sound of small voices yelling “konichiwa” – Japanese for hello – drifted out of the small children’s room in the University Park Library. Inside the room, colorful patchwork quilts hung on the ...
Nippon

Popularity of Japanese Libraries Hitting Publishers’ Bottom Line

Statistics on libraries in Japan released by the Japan Library Association show that the collections at public libraries in 2017 totaled 442.82 million books, and that there were 691.47 million loans ...
The Taipei Times

Japanese library’s error an insult, union says

The All Japan Taiwanese Union (AJTU) in a letter yesterday asked Japanese National Diet Library (NDL) director-general Motonobu Yoshinaga to change how Taiwan is addressed on its Web site from “Taiwan ...
Chattanoogan.com

Japanese Library Opening On Chattanooga's North Shore

Patrons of Chattanooga's I Go Tokyo will be able to borrow Japanese language books to take home and read beginning Wednesday at 1 p.m. with the grand opening of its free in-house Japanese lending ...
Gameranx

Japan’s National Library Excludes Game-Key Cards From Preservation

The saga of the Switch 2’s Game-Key Cards has taken another plot twist. Game-Key Cards are a strange hybrid digital physical category for Switch 2 games. The card does not contain any game code in ...