• stultifying, (adj.) : tending to stifle enthusiasm, initiative, or freedom of action.

books

• crescent by diana abu-jaber
• cupcake cafe series by jenny colgan
• hannah swensen series by joanna fluke
• kitchen by banana yoshimoto
• sweet bean paste by durian sukegawa
• the tassajara bread book by edward espe brown
• the vegetarian by han kang
• tiny moons: a year of eating in shanghai by nina mingya-powles
• hanamaru's kitchen by nishimura tomoko
• hell's kitchen by mitsuru nishimura
• hopper and yummy's kitchen by suzuka natsukawa and eiko ouchi
• kitchen princess by miyuki kobayashi & natsumi ando
• little forest by daisuke igarashi
• yumeiro patissiere by natsumi matsumoto

movies

website:

• tofugu
• tae kim's guide to learning japanese
• jisho
• wanikani
• learn natively

application:

• renshuu
• mazii

youtube:

• learn japanese with tanaka-san

podcast:

• slow japanese by mochifika
• seika の japanese podcast by seika

writers:

• iwan simatupang
• rosemary sayigh (palestinian studies)

articles/essays:

• permission to narate by edward said // written in the aftermath of israel’s 1982 destruction of beirut, “facts do not at all speak for themselves, but require a socially acceptable narrative to absorb, sustain and circulate them."

films to check out:

• chime dir. kiyoshi kurosawa