On July 17, the National Diet Library will hold an event celebrating the National Year of Reading: "Macbeth" -- Lecture and Reading. Theatrical group EN will read Shakespeare's Macbeth and Prof. Akio Kobayashi (Faculty of Humanities, Sophia University) will give a lecture on this work.

Latest news related to the National Year of Reading:

• 2010/5/7  Kaleidoscope of Books "A history of bestsellers - from the creators' perspective" now available (Japanese)
• 2010/4/14  "Enjoy Japanese language through a traditional performing art ; Rakugo for Children"