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Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Three Years After, Tomo Keeps Giving

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March 11, 2014 marked the three-year anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. Recently the 2013 earnings from sales of...
Friday, September 20, 2013

Tomo Travels---to Wichita, Kansas

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This summer  Tomo: Friendship Through Fiction was featured in Wichita, Kansas.  Hear more from  Tomo contributor Avery Fischer Udagawa: ...
Monday, May 27, 2013

Talking Translation--TOMO in the AFCC Translation Seminars

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The Asian Festival of Children's Content (AFCC) is a conference in Singapore with various tracks, workshops and seminars. This year, fo...
Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Tomo in the World Literature Classroom

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Tomo: Friendship Through Fiction is making its way into school libraries and classrooms and is being adopted as a textbook in some schools....
Monday, April 1, 2013

YARN Visits Japan--with a Tomo Story Lesson Plan

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The Young Adult Review Network (YARN) shared a sneak peak at Tomo: Friendship Through Fiction last year that featured the Tomo story ...
Friday, March 1, 2013

Tomo Story in Cricket Magazine

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This month Part 1 of Marji Napper's short story "The Lost Property Office" which is published in Tomo: Friendship Through Fic...
Sunday, December 2, 2012

Giving through Tomo: Friendship Through Fiction--2012 Donation to Hope for Tomorrow

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Tomo: Friendship Through Fiction--An Anthology of Japan Teen Stories is a benefit anthology of young adult fiction, and it is a pleasure to...
Monday, October 8, 2012

The TOMO Reader's Guide--Now Available

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Tomo: Friendship Through Fiction is a rich collection of 36 stories relating to Japan, ideal for classrooms, libraries and book groups. Now...
Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Eye on Stories features Tomo: Friendship Through Fiction

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The August issue of Eye-Ai magazine featured Tomo: Friendship Through Fiction in the Eye on Stories section , and magazine editor Terri Ni...
Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Kenji Miyazawa’s Poem “Ame ni mo makezu”--Interview with TOMO Translators David Sulz and Hart Larrabee

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David Sulz David Sulz (translator of the Tomo epigraph “Be Not Defeated by the Rain” Ame ni mo makezu ) is a librarian at the Un...