I don't think so

The Beijing Olympics will come soon, this is "Todas as logos de Olimpiadas, desde 1896". They are all good designs. By the way, the location of the next Olympics will be decided soon, right? Tokyo??

Do you remember the old 80s game Spelunker? He appears as the bottle caps. Cute!

This is an interesting article for me. Usually Japanese books are written in vertical lines, but young people are used to horizontal writing because of cell phones and the Internet. Some publishers started to sell books written horizontally. I love to read books and I love the Internet. But I would love to read regular books.

Talking about books, some paperbacks of literary masterpieces were published with cover designs by manga comic artists and they made good sales."No Longer Human" of Osamu Dazai has cover work of Ken Obata (Death Note), and Ken Obata drew a cover for "Kokoro" of Natsume Soseki too. I am not sure they are much for those books, to be honest, I don't like them, but they have a good reputation usually. But the cover of "The dancing girl of Izu" by Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata is said to be "too much". Here it is , it's a work of Hirohiko Araki (his photo) of Jojo's bizarre adventure. Odoriko has a JoJo's posing....orz

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[Ku]

2012 Summer Olympics will be held in London. As one who lives in Chicago, I truly hope 2016 Olympics will be held in Tokyo. For one, Chicago does not have the necessary mass transit (subway, bus, rail) - the traffic is bad now, it would be insurmountable with such a large influx of visitors. The proposed Olympic Village site (now mostly occupied by a bankrupt hospital) involves cleaning up hazardous waste, like asbestos and lead. The surrounding community, many of whom are lower-income people of color, strongly believes construction of the Olympic Village will destroy their community. Tokyo is much better suited to host the Olympics than Chicago - safe, clean, easy to get around, plenty of hotel rooms...

[Brent]

I like the cover for Izu -- that's a great book -- Kawabata is a favorite author of mine, along with Tanizaki ("Sisters Makioka" is his masterpiece) and I really liked "Kokoro" by Soseki. I also enjoyed a book by Banana Yoshimoto as well -- love her name.

[Jared Busch]

The 2012 Olympic games will be held in London. 2016 is what Tokyo is trying to get.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Summer_Olympics_bids

[mari]

Hi iris

Thank you very much for your comments. My favorite Japanese author is Mishima. But I love American lit, Truman Capote, Paul Auster, John Irving.

[iris]

Hi Mari,

Interesting post...I wondered about this topic when I saw more and more Japanese writing was horizontal. By the way, I am curious...who are some of your favorite authors or favorite books?
Have a nice day!