Wherever I am, the world comes after me.
It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it.
Now I understand 
why the old poets of China went so far
and high 
into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.
"The Old Poets of China" by Mary Oliver

The 5th Biennial International Conference of the Japanese Studies Association in Southeast Asia will be held from 15 to 16 December 2016 at Radisson Blu Cebu, Cebu City, Philippines. The theme of the conference is ASEAN and Japanese Studies: Futures and Critical Approaches. The conference is open to the public (non-paper presenters) but is subject to pre-registration and pre-payment via Metrobank. For details, click on the link below.