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May 18-24, 2012
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Agenda

The country’s longest running music festival, the Japan Blues & Soul Carnival, will this year be starring the albino Texan bluesman Johnny Winter. Also on the billboard this week is an exhibition of Akira creator Otomo Katsuhiro Genga, amid other juicy happenings.

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The Small Print

The Ginza line unveiled retro train carriages painted lemon yellow and featuring “seats of a red brick design that remind passengers of building architecture common in the early Showa Period.” Get on the tracks with this week’s required reading.

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Tomes for the Tots

Japanese Nursery Rhymes: Carp Streamers, Falling Rain is a large-sized collection of 15 songs that the author Danielle Wright began to gather in 2005. Read a review of that, and Karen Pond’s book Getting Genki In Japan, here.

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