Asia Literary Review is the first magazine of its kind in the Asian literary world. An exciting new English language quarterly devoted to reportage, documentary photography, travel writing, fiction and memoir, it is set to become essential reading around the world for anyone with a serious interest in Asia and the best writing from and about the region. Asia Literary Review follows the tradition of successful literary journals published in Europe and the USA by providing a view of the world that combines new fiction with eye-witness accounts and polemic. Addressing the needs of intelligent readers, every quarterly issue extends to at least 200 pages and contains the work of celebrated and established writers as well as new voices from Shanghai to Mumbai. In this edition: Portraits of Unearthly Tokyo; Timed Out; Summons a 17th-Century Haikai Master; March 2011 in Manga; Tohoku's Global Grasp; Cupcake & Cold Fire; In the Field of Flightless Dreams; Otaru's Ship Sails; Charles Allen on Abbottabad -- Osama's Kind of Town; Fiction from the United States And Canada.