WHC is proud to announce a new
and important development in the
world haiku scene. Susumu Takiguchi's column on haiku in
English with The Daily Yomiuri appears monthly (column remains online for
the week of issue only - now to be published on the second Tuesday of each
month) in the "Language Lab" feature at:
www.yomiuri.co.jp/main/main-e.htm
(Daily Yomiuri main index)
The Yomiuri Shimbun is the world's largest daily newspaper, its circulation
running into several million people. The Daily Yomiuri, read around the world,
is its English language version.
"Go-Shichi-Go Haiku in English" is the first series of its kind,
especially in terms of its educational purposes. The column appears both in
printed newspaper form and on the Internet. The column is aimed mainly, but not
exclusively, at Japanese haijin (haiku poets) who wish to learn the basics of
how to write haiku in English.
Mr. Takiguchi is the Founder and Chairman of the World Haiku Club (WHC),
established in 1998, and the World Haiku Festival (WHF). He is the Managing
Editor of World Haiku Review, the WHC's magazine. WHC Eigohaiku (Haiku in
English), his internet lessons for teaching the Japanese, step-by-step, how
to write haiku, especially English-language haiku, is a long-term project
arranged by Mitsugu Abe, WHC Policy Advisor and Susumu Takiguchi in association
with premier educational publishers in Japan.
Eigohaiku may be found at
www.alc.co.jp/com/eigohaiku/index.html
In addition, WHC provides a mailing list for mentored guidance to Japanese haiku
poets writing English-language haiku, WHCbeginnersjapan :
groups.yahoo.com/group/WHCbeginnersjapan/
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