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Podcast: Arts & Ideas
Episode: Japan Now 2020
Description: Hiromi Ito, Tomoko Sawada, and Yukiko Motoya, look at women's roles in Japanese culture today plus the Japanese view of English-language literature with translator Motoyuki Shibata. Philip Dodd presents. Bethan Jones acted as the translator.Japan Now 2020 is a series of events taking place in Sheffield, Norwich and London organised by Modern Culture culminating in a day of events at the British Library on Saturday February 22nd.Hiromi ItΕ is one of the most prominent women writers in Japan who looks at sexuality motherhood and the body in her work which is translated by Jeffrey A...