Good Day Books is the largest used English bookshop in Japan, with thousands of new, used, hard-to-find, and rare English titles in stock. Our bookshop sells, trades, and buys used English-language books, and also sells new English-language books. Good Day Books is conveniently located alongside the JR Yamanote Line, a few minutes' walk from Gotanda Station on the JR Yamanote line, Tokyu Ikegami line, or Toei Asakusa line. For detailed walking directions to Good Day Books from Gotanda Station, left-click on the "Directions" link in the upper left-hand corner of this page, just below our contact information.
Good Day Books also hosts:
BookNotes, a series of presentations by the authors of books about Japan, present or past, and Japanese, famous or obscure. BookNotes presentation on May 20, starting at 6:30 pm: Waku Miller, a simultaneous interpreter, widely published translator, and long-time friend of Good Day Books, will discuss communication issues that figured in the Olympus debacle. A close friend of ousted Olympus CEO Michael Woodford, Miller handled press relations and interpreted for Woodford as the debacle unfolded. Miller's presentation will be in Japanese and is meant for Japanese speakers of any nationality who are interested in the communications aspect of cross-cultural crisis management. To attend Miller's BookNotes presentation, you must buy from Good Day Books of a copy of Kainin (Terminated), a Japanese rendering of Woodford's first-person account of the scandal.
BookClub, a monthly geopolitics reading and discussion series. BookClub discussion on 20 May 2012, starting at 2:00 pm: Pakistan: Deep Inside the World's Most Frightening State by Mary Anne Weaver.
Non-Native Speakers' BookClub. Non-Native Speakers' BookClub discussion on 10 June 2012, starting at 2:00 pm: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain.
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