Risa Wataya, an award-winning Japanese novelist, recently shared her delight with life in Beijing with local literature fans as she spoke about being intrigued by everyday discoveries and differences between the Japanese and Chinese languages.Wataya, who became the youngest winner of Japan's prestigious Akutagawa Prize in 2004 at age 19, told more than 100 people at an event hosted by the Japanese Embassy in Beijing in late March that she likes that the capital city has been "promoting modernization at full speed but retains a nostalgic atmosphere."Even before her relocation from Tokyo last…READ FULL ARTICLE
