John Grant Ross on Taiwan & Japan
John Grant Ross on Taiwan & Japan
In this episode of the BOA podcast, host Amy Chavez talks with John Ross, a New Zealand writer based in Taiwan. Ross has... Read more
21 Jun 2023
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34mins
Japan's 31 Passions, with John Rucynski
Japan's 31 Passions, with John Rucynski
In 2021 John Rucynski--who has been living in Japan on and off since 1994--self-published A Passion for Japan through Bl... Read more
12 May 2023
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37mins
Stephen Mansfield Talks Tokyo
Stephen Mansfield Talks Tokyo
Stephen Mansfield, author of Tokyo: A Biography (Tuttle, 2017), is a British writer and photo-journalist based in Japan.... Read more
14 Feb 2023
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36mins
Translating Hiromi Ito's "The Thorn Puller" with Jeffrey Angles
Translating Hiromi Ito's "The Thorn Puller" with Jeffrey Angles
In this episode of the Books on Asia Podcast, host Amy Chavez sits down with writer, translator, and professor of Japane... Read more
23 Jan 2023
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41mins
Sarah Coomber and the Female Experience Teaching in Japan
Sarah Coomber and the Female Experience Teaching in Japan
Sarah Coomber is the author of The Same Moon (Camphor Press, 2020), a memoir about what happened when she traded out her... Read more
12 Dec 2022
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35mins
Azby Brown on Sustainability and his Book “Just Enough”
Azby Brown on Sustainability and his Book “Just Enough”
In this episode of the BOA podcast, host Amy Chavez talks with Azby Brown, a long-time resident of Japan and author of J... Read more
24 Oct 2022
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46mins
Traveling Japan as a Blind Person, with Maud Rowell
Traveling Japan as a Blind Person, with Maud Rowell
In this episode of the BOA podcast, host Amy Chavez talks with Maud Rowell about her new book Blind Spot: Exploring and ... Read more
26 Sep 2022
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33mins
Moving to Japan's Countryside with Iain Maloney
Moving to Japan's Countryside with Iain Maloney
In this episode of the Books on Asia podcast, podcast host and island-dweller Amy Chavez and Gifu countryside villager I... Read more
19 Aug 2022
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45mins
The Spirit of Shizen: The Nature of Japan through 72 Seasons, with Robert Weis
The Spirit of Shizen: The Nature of Japan through 72 Seasons, with Robert Weis
Podcast host Amy Chavez talks to Robert Weis, curator of the Luxembourg Natural History Museum's upcoming exhibit, “Spir... Read more
1 Jul 2022
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24mins
Cody Poulton on Japanese Performing Arts
Cody Poulton on Japanese Performing Arts
Amy asks Poulton to explain the difference between reading Noh plays and seeing a Noh performance. Poulton goes into gre... Read more
9 Jun 2022
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33mins