Public Library ― 2009/11/28

behind the building is the Fukuoka Tower

As Fukuoka City professes itself to be an “international city” and “Japan’s door to the Asia”,  Fukuoka City library stocks a wide range of foreign books as well as textbooks of Japnese language so that non-Japanese residents can enjoy books in their mother tongue while learning Japanese.  

 

The languages available in the foreign magazine/paper section are English, Arabic, Italian, Chinese, Korean, Russian…and languages that I can’t recognise.
I put short lists of the magazines and papers available there:

 

Magazines – usually available for loan 1month after the arrival


大衆電影

Women China

Tempo

Metro

Koreana

Orohék

Bangkok Times

Vogue Italia

Semmana

Elle

L’EXPRESS

Suddeuts Zèitung

Der Spiegel

Smithonian

Esquire

India Today

L’UOMO

L’ Espresso

…and more


 

Newspapers – usually available after 3 to 4 days of the publish


Renmin Ribao

United Daily News

Nhan Dan

The Philippine Daily Inquirer

Kompas

Le Monde

Jang

Hamshahri

The Bangladesh Observer

ИЗВЕСТИЯ   

…and more

 

Did I spell all the titles correctly?
I can go on with another long list of books, but as I am getting tired of looking into characters I haven’t seen, I stop here.

 

With the textbooks and dictionaries of each language stocked in the library, in theory, you can learn a number of languages while living in this local city.
I haven’t dared to attempt myself, though.

 

Despite being a native Japanese speaker with Japanese nationality, I have been benefiting from this section (I'm not sure if I am qualified, though).  I tend to borrow the Economist or National Geographic when I wish to show how intelligent I am (to whom?), but what I really enjoy is Good Housekeeping, especially “How I Have Lost xxx Pounds” type articles.

Am I a bit vain borrowing non-japanese books?

Today’s loan…




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