Modernização urbana e cultura contemporânea: diálogos Brasil-Japão.  (Urban Modernization and Contemporary Culture. Dialogues between Brazil and Japan). Abi-Sâmara, Raquel; Costa, Murilo Jardelino da; Urushima, Andrea Yuri Flores (Eds.). The book  is a selection of papers presented at the International Symposium Brazil-Japan in 2008 at the Latin America Memorial, Sao Paulo. The interdisciplinary symposium was a dialogue between Architecture, Urbanization and Literature. It was organized in partnership with the University of Sao Paulo (USP), Kyoto University, and the International Research Centre for Japanese Studies (NICHIBUNKEN, Kyoto), as one of the outputs of my post-doctoral research at NICHIBUNKEN (2007-8). São Paulo: Terracota Editora, 2015. 232 pp.