{"id":664,"date":"2012-05-31T13:39:14","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T20:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=664"},"modified":"2012-05-31T13:39:14","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T20:39:14","slug":"notebook-on-cities-and-culture-s1e24-japanese-international-style-with-todd-shimoda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=664","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture S1E24: Japanese International Style with Todd Shimoda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-665\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"shimodanew\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/shimodanew.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/shimodanew.jpg 310w, http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/shimodanew-265x300.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/>Colin Marshall sits down in Little Tokyo with novelist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shimodaworks.com\/\">Todd Shimoda<\/a>, author, in collaboration with visual artist L.J.C. Shimoda, of &#8220;philosophical mystery&#8221; novels with science, engineering, Japanese and Japanese-American themes. His latest, <em>Subduction<\/em>, follows a disgraced young physician into his four-year exile on a tiny, earthquake-prone, mythology-freighted island off the Japanese coast. They discuss Japan&#8217;s very real earthquakes in Kobe and Fukushima; the book&#8217;s obsessed characters, whether obsessed with seismology, documentation, or simply staying on the island; the question of how much scientific data he can safely include in a novel, and if this age of Wikipedia changes that; the &#8220;four-dimensional&#8221; Japanese cultural co-existence of mythology and science, and its blurred boundary between practice and belief; writing a novel of Japan without writing a novel of Japanese-ness, and avoiding other problems that befall Westerners&#8217; writing about the East; Haruki Murakami, Kobo Abe, and the Japanese International Style; his risk of real-life island despair while living on Kauai, and his regular, pendulum-like moves between the urban, suburban, and rural worlds; how to use the cultures that converge in Los Angeles to write a novel of Los Angeles, where the appearance of no neighborhoods becomes the reality of too many; the city&#8217;s actual earthquake of the previous evening; Chin Music Press&#8217; sense of geographic place; and the availability of a constant stream of Western fascination with Japan for a novelist to tap into.<\/p>\n<p>Download the interview from <em>Notebook on Cities and Culture\u2019<\/em>s feed <a href=\"http:\/\/colinmarshall.libsyn.com\/webpage\/s1e24-japanese-international-style-with-todd-shimoda\">here<\/a> or on iTunes <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/notebook-on-cities-culture\/id266539442\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Photo: Mike Mazzoli)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Marshall sits down in Little Tokyo with novelist Todd Shimoda, author, in collaboration with visual artist L.J.C. Shimoda, of &#8220;philosophical mystery&#8221; novels with science, engineering, Japanese and Japanese-American themes. His latest, Subduction, follows a disgraced young physician into his four-year exile on a tiny, earthquake-prone, mythology-freighted island off the Japanese coast. 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