The Inland Sea recommended at The Japan Times

In "Speaking Volumes" The Japan Times asks both staff and local readers to list their favorite books on Japan that are available in English. Staff writer Eric Prideaux recommends The Inland Sea: "This travel book exemplifies what I imagine the original mission of journalism to have been: to go somewhere far away, surrender yourself to the strange new environs, and send back reports so vivid and personal that they could have been taken straight from the pages of, yes, a journal. Taking us along on his voyages across the Inland Sea in Japan's southwest, Richie hypnotizes us with prose as gentle as the tide, then suddenly unleashes powerful insights."

Mirei Shigemori added to the USDA's National Agricultural Library

Mirei Shigemori: Modernizing the Japanese Garden has been selected for the National Agricultural Library collection. Stone Bridge Press is honored to contribute this title to the United States Department of Agriculture.

Patrick Galloway interviewed in USA Today

USA Today interviews Patrick Galloway, author of Stray Dogs & Lone Wolves: The Samurai Film Handbook, as part of an article on the renewed interests in samurai films, both onscreen and on DVD.

Patrick Macias featured in two Japanese publications

Patrick Macias, co-author of Cruising the Anime City: An Otaku Guide to Neo Tokyo, is interviewed in both The Tokyo Shimbun and business magazine Sapio. You can read The Tokyo Shimbun article here and find the issue of Sapio on newsstands in Japan.

Erotic Haiku and Japanese Art of Sex reviewed at Eros-Zine

In Book Review: Two Japanese Titles, Eros-Zine reviews both Erotic Haiku and The Japanese Art of Sex.

Stray Dogs & Lone Wolves reviewed at Midnight Eye

Stray Dogs & Lone Wolves: The Samurai Film Handbook is reviewed at Midnight Eye which you can read here.

Tom Mes signing Midnight Eye Guide at Lyon Asian Film Festival

Tom Mes, co-author of The Midnight Eye Guide to New Japanese Film, will be a guest at the Lyon Asian Film Festival in France, which takes place from November 7-14. He will be signing his new book, Iron Man and his SBP title at bookstore Decitre in Lyon on Saturday, November 12. Tom will also be on hand to introduce the rare double-bill screening of Shinya Tsukamoto's two most recent films, Haze and Tamamushi. Read more about the event here .

Frederik L. Schodt to speak at Chico State's "Shojo Manga!"

Frederik L. Schodt, author and translator of SBP titles such as Dreamland Japan, The Four Immigrants Manga and Mobile Suit Gundam, will be speaking and signing books at the "Shojo Manga! Girl Power!" event at California State University Chico on November 10. Read more about it in the press release and in the Orion.

Anime Companion 2 reviewed in Animeland

Animeland Issue 115 (October 2006) reviews The Anime Companion 2: More...What's Japanese in Japanese Animation?

jrock, ink. reviewed in Anime Insider

Anime Insider, October 2006: “If you’re a J-rock fan worth your piercings you can’t afford to be without this ultrasleek book… from icons like XJapan to modern stars like Dir en grey. It reads back-to-front, Japan-style, and features some really trippy and amazing art...”

Stray Dogs reviewed in The Daily Yomiuri

The Daily Yomiuri reviewed Stray Dogs & Lone Wolves: The Samurai Film Handbook in its September 11 issue: "What a superb book this is. Witty, informative, thorough and above all enthusiastic, it deserves a prominent place on the shelf of any serious student of Japanese film ... If you aren't already a fan of this highly involved and specialized genre, you will be after reading this book."

BBC Radio 4 discusses Madame Butterfly

BBC Radio Four discusses Madame Butterfly in "The Real History of Opera". Unfortunately there is only one day left to listen to the program, but Stone Bridge Press has Jan van Rij's Madame Butterfly: Japonisme, Puccini, and the Search for the Real Cho-Cho-San to learn about the real history of this particular opera.

jrock, ink. featured in Associated Press article

In "Book provides guide to Japanese rock bands" Associated Press ASAP reporter Hillary Rhodes interviews Josephine Yun, author of jrock, ink.: a concise report on 40 of the biggest rock acts in japan, and calls the book, "...Elaborate mini-encyclopedia ... is a spunky, fast-paced rundown of 40 of the hottest rock-music acts in Japan."

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The News Tribune
The Canton Rep
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The Seattle Times

Wabi-Sabi discussed at OnTheCommons.org

In "Wabi-Sabi and Market Culture" OnTheCommons.org discusses wabi-sabi, the Stone Bridge book Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers and its author, Leonard Koren.

SBP books to be reviewed in Mechademia

Mechademia: “The Worlds of Anime and Manga” Vol. #1, which will debut in Fall 2006, will feature reviews of Mobile Suit Gundam: Awakening, Escalation, Confrontation and Watching Anime, Reading Manga : 25 Years of Essays and Reviews.

Cruising the Anime City recommended in En Route

In "The Anime City," En Route Magazine recommends Cruising the Anime City as "a map-filled guide to Tokyo's best comic-related stimulants."

Stray Dogs & Lone Wolves reviewed in Kansai Time Out

Kansai Time Out, October 2005 (no. 344): "Stray Dogs is billed as an antidote to the stuffier, academic approach taken by previous books on samurai films, and [Patrick] Galloway has certainly broken the mold."

Mirei Shigemori reviewed at BellaOnline

BellaOnline reviews Mirei Shigemori: Modernizing the Japanese Garden which you can read here.

Images from Mirei Shigemori featured in Kyoto Journal

Kyoto Journal #61, out now, features a two-page spread of images of Tofukuji that are from the book Mirei Shigemori: Modernizing the Japanese Garden. You can also see a sample page of the book at the Stone Bridge Press website.

The Flower Shop reviewed at Spirituality & Health

The Flower Shop: Charm, Grace, Beauty, Tenderness in a Commercial Context is reviewed at Spirituality & Health, which you can read here.

The Flower Shop reviewed at BellaOnline

The Flower Shop: Charm, Grace, Beauty & Tenderness in a Commercial Context is reviewed at BellaOnline, which you can read here.

Author Leonard Koren interviewed in New York Times Magazine

In "In the Slow Lane" found in Sunday's New York Times Magazine author Leonard Koren discusses his many books with Stone Bridge Press, including his most famous, Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers, and his most recent, The Flower Shop: Charm, Grace, Beauty & Tenderness in a Commercial Context.

Author Patrick Drazen to discuss anime at Lake County Discovery Museum

On December 10, Patrick Drazen, author of Anime Explosion! The What? Why? & Wow! of Japanese Animation will discuss anime at the Lake County Discovery Museum in Wauconda, Illinois as part of the Anime-zing Exhibit.

Designing with Kanji reviewed in Kyoto Journal

Kyoto Journal #61, currently on shelves in Japan and posted to subscribers worldwide, has a review of Designing with Kanji: Japanese Character Motifs for Surface, Skin & Spirit: "Not a designer myself, I found it fascinating for the beauty of the kanji represented and for the concise poetic descriptions of their meanings. It reads like a coffee table art book... open it to any page and you will find something beautiful to be enjoyed."

Cruising The Anime City reviewed in Fortean Times

Fortean Times reviews Cruising The Anime City: An Otaku Guide To Neo-Tokyo which you can read here.

Cover for new book: 70 Japanese Gestures

Here is the cover for the new book, 70 Japanese Gestures: No Language Communication.

SBP Author Nobuyoshi Araki featured in The Guardian

The Guardian discusses new SBP author Nobuyoshi Araki and his work, tied in to his current photography exhibit at The Barbican in London.

Stone Bridge Press will be publishing Subway Love, a collection of more than 200 b&w portraits of subway passengers in Tokyo. Taken between 1963 and 1972, these portraits of ordinary people in transit are a memorable look at the Japan of decades ago and a study of human interaction and solitude in a changing world.

SBP authors quoted at The Appalachian Online

In "Japan Exports Horror," Brian Blazek of The Appalachian Online quotes Tom Mes and Jasper Sharp, authors of The Midnight Eye Guide to New Japanese Film, and Mark Schilling, author of The Yakuza Movie Book: A Guide to Japanese Gangster Films.

The Flower Shop reviewed in Marin Magazine

In Marin Magazine, Steve Costa of Point Reyes Books writes of The Flower Shop: "San Francisco author and artist [Leonard] Koren spent a year in a Viennese flower shop he describes as a place of inspiration, refuge, and virtue. The book has lots of wonderful photographs and it's really enlightening for anyone involved in art and commerce."

Author Patrick Macias writes about growing up otaku for The Sacramento Bee

Patrick Macias, co-author of Cruising the Anime City: An Otaku Guide to Neo-Tokyo, writes about growing up in Sacramento as an otaku in "Immersed in Translation" for The Sacramento Bee. Patrick now lives in Tokyo.

The Flower Shop reviewed in East Bay Express

East Bay Express reviews The Flower Shop: Charm, Grace, Beauty & Tenderness in a Commercial Context which you can read here.

The Yakuza Movie Book reviewed at Sequential Tart

Sequential Tart reviews The Yakuza Movie Book: A Guide to Japanese Gangster Films which you can read here.

SBP film books reviewed in 8Weekly

8Weekly reviews all four film books currently available from Stone Bridge Press. Click here for the reviews to The Yakuza Movie Book: A Guide to Japanese Gangster Films, The Midnight Eye Guide to New Japanese Film, and Stray Dogs & Lone Wolves: The Samurai Film Handbook. Click here for the review to Tokyo Story: The Ozu/Noda Screenplay. If you can't read Dutch, there are several online translators available such as Babelfish.

Anime Companion 2 reviewed at Animefringe

Animefringe reviews The Anime Companion 2: More... What's Japanese in Japanese Animation? which you can read here.