IN OCTOBER, 1993, MR. MASAHIKO SHIMADA WAS INVITED AS A GUEST LECTURER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO WHERE HE GAVE TWO LECTURES IN ENGLISH, ONE ON THE GENERAL STATE OF HIS ART, AND ANOTHER SPECIFICALLY ON HIS NOVEL HIGAN SENSEIWE HOPE TO BE ABLE TO GIVE YOU SOME VIDEO CLIPS FROM HIS LECTURES, BUT BEFORE WE MASTER THE TECHNOLOGY, HERE ARE SEVERAL PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN WHILE HE WAS IN TORONTO:

FOR A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS BY MASAHIKO SHIMADA, I HAVE COMPILED A BILINGUAL LIST (JAPANESE AND ENGLISH). WHERE WORKS HAVE BEEN TRANSLATED AND PUBLISHED IN ENGLISH, PLEASE FIND THOSE WORKS LINKED TO THE AMAZON.COM CATALOGUE.

FOR A SAMPLE TRANSLATION, BY KENNETH L. RICHARD, FROM HIGAN SENSEI, PLEASE PROCEED TO THE 'MEXICO DIARY,' A PORTION OF THE NOVEL IN WHICH THE MAIN CHARACTER, KNOWN NOT BY HIS NAME, BUT ONLY BY 'SENSEI' (TEACHER), REVEALS A SEXUAL ENCOUNTER HE HAS WITH HIS NEW YORK CITY ROOMATE OF THE TIME, WHILE THEY WERE ON A HOLIDAY IN MEXICO CITY.