FY2023

March 2, 2024
Ginza Oji Hall, Chuo-ku, Tokyo

【Facilitator-Readers】	Motoyo Yamane (announcer) Masako Shindo (announcer)
【Guest Reader】	Tadahiko Sako (announcer and film director)
【Music】	Toshiaki Iida (composer, arranger, and piano) Chiharu Miki (cello) Hijiri Kuwano (violin)

Motoyo Yamane, a former NHK announcer who appeared at the first reading and is now an outside director of Itochu Enex, read from Millie's Marvellous Hat by Satoshi Kitamura and Tadokoro-san by Banana Yoshimoto, and Masako Shindo, a former TBS announcer, read from Ten Dreaming Nights by Natsume Soseki. We also welcomed Tadahiko Sako, a former TBS announcer and now a documentary film director, who read from The Town I Saw at the End by Taichi Yamada.

September 3, 2023
Shirakawa Hall, Nagoya-shi, Aichi

【Facilitator-Readers 】	Motoyo Yamane (announcer) Masako Shindo (announcer)
【Guest Reader】	Yoshinori Shimizu (author)
【Music】	Toshiaki Iida (composer, arranger, and piano) Kirin Uchida (cello) Hijiri Kuwano (violin)

Motoyo Yamane read Uso by Nankichi Niimi, while Masako Shindo read Hebi by Naoki Prize-winning author Kanako Nishi. We also welcomed Nagoya-born author Yoshinori Shimizu, who read from his own work, Soba and Kishimen, as our guest.