On the 7th of May, Mr. Miyata, Counsellor of the Embassy of Japan in Estonia, and the Cultural Attaché, Mr. Ikeda, visited the Research Library for an official book handover ceremony of books donated to the Academic Library of Tallinn University as part of the project READ JAPAN 2025.
The Nippon Foundation’s READ JAPAN project aims to promote understanding of Japan through books by donating English-language books about Japanese society, history, culture, and more to universities and libraries around the world. TLU Academic Library has previously received donations in the framework of this project in 2018 and 2023.
This time, 17 books arrived at the Academic Library, which can be viewed at the new literature exhibition in the Research Library until the end of May and at the Study Centre starting from June. By placing a hold, You can be sure that the newly gifted book will be Yours to read in no time.
- Beyond the Gender Gap in Japan / edited by Gill Steel
- Dynasties and Democracy: The Inherited Incumbency Advantage in Japan / Daniel M. Smith
- Gods of Medieval Japan, Volume 1, 2 & 3 / Bernard Faure
- An Illustrated Companion to Japanese Archaeology / edited by Werner Steinhaus, Simon Kaner, Megumi Jinno, Shinya Shoda
- Japan in the Heisei Era (1989-2019): Multidisciplinary Perspectives / Edited By Noriko Murai, Jeff Kingston, Tina Burrett
- The Japanese Economy: Strategies to Cope with a Shrinking and Ageing Population / Randall S. Jones
- Language Communities in Japan / edited by John C. Maher
- Learn Japanese with Manga Volume One: A Self-Study Language Book for Beginners / Marc Bernabe
- Miyazaki World: A Life in Art / Susan Napier
- Night in the American Village: Women in the Shadow of the U.S. Military Bases in Okinawa / Akemi Johnson
- Of Arcs and Circles: Insights from Japan on Gardens, Nature, and Art / Marc Peter Keane
- One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each: A Treasury of Classical Japanese Verse / edited by Peter Macmillan
- Rights Make Right: Global Human Rights and Minority Social Movements in Japan / Kiyoteru Tsutsui
- Sharing a House with the Never-Ending Man: 15 Years at Studio Ghibli / Steve Alpert
- Sacred Heritage in Japan / edited by Aike P. Rots, Mark Teeruwen
