Star Tribune

Minnesotans worried that a huge Japanese book collection would be lost. Now two new libraries will save it.

Unable to afford textbooks while growing up on Japan’s northwest coast, Yoko Breckenridge would borrow them from friends and copy each chapter by hand. Breckenridge, who married an American soldier ...
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 ...
Bellevue Reporter

Japanese library finds new home at Jubilee REACH

Jubilee REACH broke ground this week on a new Japanese library on their campus. “This miracle never would have happened at any place other than Jubilee REACH. What a wonderful moment for us!” said one ...
Bellevue Reporter

Volunteers hope to raise funds for Japanese language library

Tomoshibi means small light in Japanese, and for 21 years, that's exactly what the Tomoshibi library provided for the Japanese community in Bellevue. Until it ceased operation last May, the library ...
Los Angeles Times

She turned her Glendale home into a public library of Japanese literature

A good book should never go unread. So when Mitsuko Roberts began going through the many tomes in her Glendale home and tallied at least 200 Japanese books, it bothered her that so many were sitting ...
Indiatimes

Japanese library to come up in Aundh

The shelves are stocked and all arrangements are complete for what is likely to be the biggest Japanese book library in the city. Pune: The shelves are stocked and all arrangements are complete for ...
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 ...
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 ...
wallpaper

Japanese library inspired by forests celebrates communal learning

The city of Nasushiobara has just got a new library and community centre courtesy of the dynamic Japanese architecture studio of Mari Ito, UAo. A geometric composition out of glass, metal and timber, ...
The Taipei Times

Japanese library’s Web site protested

The government has officially issued a protest to a Japanese state-run library over its wrongful designation of Taiwan as a part of the People’s Republic of China on its Web site. The ministry found ...
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 ...