{"id":4049,"date":"2009-03-08T15:41:39","date_gmt":"2009-03-08T15:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=4049"},"modified":"2009-03-08T15:46:34","modified_gmt":"2009-03-08T15:46:34","slug":"kinokuniya-sets-up-jet-alumni-author-section","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/08\/kinokuniya-sets-up-jet-alumni-author-section\/","title":{"rendered":"Kinokuniya sets up JET Alumni Author section"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In anticipation of the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/04\/jet-alumni-author-showcase-kelts-kennedy-and-weston-march-22-2\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>JET Alumni Author Showcase<\/strong><\/a> (set for March 22; e-mail <a href=\"mailto:authors@jetaany.org\">authors at jetaany dot org<\/a> to rsvp), <a href=\"http:\/\/bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp\/indexohb.cgi?AREA=03\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Kinokuniya<\/strong><\/a> has set up a table featuring books by JET alumni authors.\u00a0 The table is on the ground floor in the main aisle, right by the magazine section and features the following books:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.japanamericabook.com\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Japanamerica<\/strong><\/em><\/a> &#8211; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/japanamerica.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Roland Kelts<\/a> (Osaka-shi, 1998-99)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Order-Odd-Fish-James-Kennedy\/dp\/038573543X\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1217474145&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Order of Odd-Fish<\/em><\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/jameskennedy.com\" target=\"_blank\">James Kennedy<\/a> (Nara-ken, 2004-06)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zorgamazoo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Zorgamazoo<\/em><\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zorgamazoo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Robert P. Weston<\/a> (Nara-ken, 2002-04)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/books\/9780060577209\/Learning_to_Bow\/index.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Learning to Bow<\/em><\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/feilerfaster\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bruce Feiler<\/a> (Tottori-ken, 1989-90)<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Importing-Diversity-Inside-Japans-Program\/dp\/0520216369\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Importing Diversity:\u00a0 Inside Japan&#8217;s JET Program<\/em><\/a> &#8211; David L. McConnell<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hitching-Rides-Buddha-Will-Ferguson\/dp\/1841957852\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1236526849&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">Hitching Rides with Buddha<\/a> <\/em>(originally titled<em> Hokkaido Hitchhiking Blues<\/em>) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.willferguson.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Will Ferguson<\/a> (Nagasaki-ken, 1991-94)<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>*See a more complete list of JET alumni authors and their works at <a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/library\/authorsbooks\/\">https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/library\/authorsbooks\/<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Stop by Kinokuniya and take a look!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/04\/jet-alumni-author-showcase-kelts-kennedy-and-weston-march-22-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4050 aligncenter\" title=\"img_6956\" src=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/img_6956.jpg\" alt=\"img_6956\" width=\"536\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Other Kinokuniya-related information that may be of interest to you:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Kinokuniya now offers an <strong>Anime\/Manga Membership Card<\/strong> &#8211; for $15 you get 10% off all of your purchases.\u00a0 You can find the application form at the checkout desk in their stores.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Anime Day @ Kinokuniya<\/strong> &#8211; <strong>Sunday March 15\u00a0 (<\/strong>1073 Avenue of the Americas &amp; 40th St. in NYC) &#8211; 11am to 6pm &#8211; First 10 fans dresses as Zetsubou-Sensei will win <em>Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei Vol. 1<\/em> from Del Rey Manga!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Japanese Young Artists&#8217; Book Fair_3rd &#8211; Feb 15 thru March 8<\/strong> &#8211; Comics, graphic books, picture books, art books, phtoograph books, poetry books, art object books and more at 4 different locations in NY:\u00a0 Kinokuniya (Midtown), Printed Matter (Chelsea), St. Mark&#8217;s Bookshop (E. Village), Spoonbill &amp; Sugartown, Booksellers (Williamsburg) and<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In anticipation of the upcoming JET Alumni Author Showcase (set for March 22; e-mail authors at jetaany dot org to rsvp), Kinokuniya has set up a table featuring books by JET alumni authors.\u00a0 The table is on the ground floor in the main aisle, right by the magazine section and features the following books: Japanamerica [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[40,26,53,14,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-celebrity","category-events","category-roland-kelts","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-13j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4049"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4058,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4049\/revisions\/4058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}