visiting a "book cafe" in Fukui-ken

Just published from Echizen-city: a 2-minute introduction to this classic "book cafe" (vinyl record collection, too).

The name seems to be "Godot" (as in the stage production, "Waiting for Godot"), but when the phonetic Katakana is reworked into alphabet, it comes out "Go dou."

It is a good example to glimpse the atmosphere and details of this kind of shop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8i4IesO9iM&feature=youtu.be

new book (2019), Japan & China interrelations of 15 centuries

excerpt from December 2020 obituary for Dr. Ezra Vogel (90), published by the Japan Times online.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/12/21/national/ezra-f-vogel-obituary/

At the age of 89, he published "China and Japan: Facing History" (2019), which reviews the history of political and cultural ties between the two nations over 1,500 years. Vogel hoped that the book would offer an accurate portrayal of how the two countries learned from each other over the centuries, but also serve to encourage the Chinese and Japanese leaders to forge a more constructive relationship going forward.