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Artist and writer Satoshi Kitamura's illustrated account of the Monkey Business team in Manila.

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Roland Kelts: Roland Nozomu Kelts is an award-winning Japanese American author, journalist, media scholar and editor inhabiting the spaces where Japanese and American cultures meet. His acclaimed book JAPANAMERICA is considered the ultimate guide to Japan's pop culture juggernaut — required reading for global producers, artists and academics. He contributes to The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Guardian, Zoetrope: All Story, The Times Literary Supplement, Nikkei, Yomiuri, New Statesmen and more, and he is a primary source on Japan for CNN, CBS, the BBC and NHK. He is a columnist for The Japan Times and a professor at Waseda University in Tokyo. He speaks on Japan for think tanks, embassies, universities, pop culture conventions and private events in the US, Europe and Asia, including The World Economic Forum, The Daiwa Foundation London, and Citic CLSA Forums Asia. Kelts has taught at The University of Tokyo, New York University, Columbia University, Sophia University and Harvard University. He has also won several awards including a Nieman Fellowship in Journalism at Harvard and a Jacob K. Javits Award in Writing at Columbia.

Talk 2025

• December 11th: Murakami Mixtape at Town Hall New York
• December 2-4: CITIC CLSA Forum, Shanghai
• November 14th-16th: Kyoto State Guesthouse, Kyoto
• November 12th: USJETAA / US-Japan Foundation, The Religion of Anime, Livestream
• November 7th-9th: MinkaCon 2025, Shinshiro, Aichi
• October 10th: Royal Park Hotel Tokyo--Aging Japan for The Nation Travels
• October 9th: Temple University Tokyo--Japan Found its Cool in the 21st Century, But Can It Keep It?
• October 7th: Asia Society Japan/I-House Tokyo--In Conversation with Andy Summers
• July 30th: Haruki Murakami Library, Waseda University, Tokyo--"Jam Session at the Strange Library," Jazz & Haruki Murakami w/Jason Moran, Motoyuki Shibata
• July 7th: Asia Society Japan/I-House--The Essence of the Anime Industry: Creativity and Crisis w/Studio Ghibli, Polygon Pictures & Ponoc
• April 24th: Osaka Expo, Osaka--EXPO LIVE features JAPANAMERICA
• April 18th: Makuhari Messe, Chiba--Star Wars Celebration Japan: Roland Kelts & Friends
• March 26th: ROLAND KELTS at Harvard Club of Japan
• March 21st: CIEE Doshinsha University, Kyoto

Talk 2024

• December 18th: The Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan
• December 3/4: The Japan Society of Boston
• September 21st-23rd: The Nation Travels Japan --Tradition and Innovation
• July 10th: Depaul University for WorldStrides
• May 20th: Vanderbilt University for WorldStrides
• April 29th: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee EMBA for WorldStrides

Talk 2023

• December 13th: FCCJ Tokyo, "Ametora" w/W. David Marx
• December 5th: The Japan Society of Boston, "How Japanese Stories Hook the World"
• February 21st: FCCJ Tokyo, "The Art of Blade Runner: Black Lotus"

Talk 2022

• August 19th: BBC Newshour Interview
• July 11th: InterFM Tokyo "Guy Perryman Interviews Roland Kelts"
• June 15th: No Future podcast "The Economics of Anime with Roland Kelts"
• May 1st: Kodansha USA live stream "Roland Kelts on Osamu Tezkua"
• February 15th: The Japan Society of New York

Talk 2021

• December 8th: The Japan Society of Boston 50th Anniversary of Donald Richie's "The Inland Sea"
• October 26th: Sentai Filmworks Roundtable on "Lupin the 3rd" 50th Anniversary
• September 10th: BBC World Panel, "What's ailing Japan?"
• July 8th-13th: A-JAPAN 2021
• June-August: Waseda University
• May 25th: CLSA Japan Forum 2021
• May 12th: Boston Public Library / GBH / The Japan Society of Boston
• March 18th: Japanese Pop Culture's Response to Covid-19, Japan-America Society of Dallas Fort Worth

Talk 2020

• December 17th: Japan Through the Eyes of a Monkey, MIWF, Jakarta
• December 12th: Monkey is Back! Ignition Gallery, Tokyo
• November 21st: US-ASIA SUMMIT 2020, The Asia Society of Southern California, Japan House LA
• November 14th: JAPANAMERICA discussion, The Makassar International Writers Festival
• October 18th: In conversation with Mieko Kawakami, International House of Japan / Asia Society
• October 10th: Monkey Japan Launch, Waseda University
• October 7th: The Center for Rule-making Strategies
• October 2nd: The Delphi Salon
• September 15th: In Conversation with Sebastian Masuda, Japan America Society of Houston
• September 4th-6th: JAPANAMERICA panel, Virtual Crunchyroll Expo
• August 16th: Japan-America Student Conference
• July 28th: JAPANAMERICA interview, Asia Society Hong Kong
• June-August: Japanese Pop Culture intensive seminar, Waseda University
• January 10th: JAPANAMERICA at Japan America Society of Houston

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