The first leg of her 2009 U.S. tour featured events in the East Village, Books Kinokuniya New York, and the Brooklyn Book Festival, where she got to meet firsthand with readers and new students—old and young, male and female—looking to better themselves through some of KIMIKO’s posture postive techniques.  Taking time to give each new reader she met some insight to her life and the changes she has made over the last decade, KIMIKO touched the lives of dozens of people in New York.

KIMIKO’s West Coast tour includes lessons in Los Angeles, Gardena, San Jose and San Francisco.  She will also be signing books and demonstrating her Posture Walking techniques at Books Kinokuniya Los Angeles and Books Kinokuniya San Jose.  In San Francisco, KIMIKO will be joined by renowned orthopedic surgeon Dr. James Garrick at the Book Passage in the historic Ferry Building, Monday September 21st.

September 19, 2009 (Saturday) 1:30pm-3:30pm
Books Kinokuniya Los Angeles
123 Astronaut E. Onizuka St., Los Angeles, CA 90012

September 21, 2009 (Monday) 6:00pm-7:00pm
Book Passage Bookstore
with Dr. James Garrick in attendance
1 Ferry Building, #42, San Francisco, CA 94111

September 22, 2009 (Tuesday) 3:00pm-4:00pm
Books Kinokuniya San Jose
685 Saratoga Ave., San Jose, CA 95129

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Saturday’s event at Books Kinokuniya will take place at 2:00pm instead of 1:00pm as previously scheduled.

With Fashion Week upon us, the eyes of the world will focus on the many men and women who will grace the runways of the dozens of events hosted by New York’s trend-setting studios.  But how do these people walk with such power and confidence? It’s mental!

Surrounded by stress and a deteriorating figure, KIMIKO decided she would turn her life around and took steps towards rejuvenating her mind and body through a simple feat that she performed countless times a day: walking. Before long, KIMIKO was moving in a direction towards international wellness acclaim. Eventually she would strut her way to a point where she was sharing her techniques to feel younger and look stronger to thousands of Posture Walkers around the globe.

This weekend join entrepreneur and everywoman KIMIKO as she will be signing her new book Walking Your Way to a Better Life and demonstrating the teachings from its pages. With KIMIKO as your guide, there’s no telling how far your two legs will take you, as you improve your life, one step at a time.  Walk it, baby!!

September 12, 2009 (Saturday), 2:00pm-3:00pm
Location: Books Kinokuniya New York, 1073 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan, NY

September 13, 2009 (Sunday) 1:00pm-2:30pm
2009 Brooklyn Book Festival
Borough Hall Plaza, 209 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, NY

This will be your last chance to experience the Caravan before it heads back home to Japan. Kinokuniya will be stocked will all your favorite Aranzi titles, so come experience the cute crafts and goodies first hand.

Check out photos from Snakie’s recent adventures in LA and NYC.

The signing will be held from 5PM to 7PM at Kinokuniya Bookstore, directly across from Bryant Park, between 40th and 41st St..

Kinokuniya Bookstore
1073 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10018
Tel: (212)869-1700

The Shojo legend and author of manga classics To Terra… and Andromeda Stories will be making the following West Coast stops to celebrate the 25th Anniversary and U.S. debut of Andromeda Stories #1.

September 15, 2007
Barnes & Noble Bookstore, 1201 3rd St. (3rd St. Promenade), Santa Monica, California from 3:00-4:00 PM
September 17, 2007
Powell’s Bookstore, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., Portland, Oregon from 7:00-9:00 PM
September 19, 2007
University of British Columbia (UBC) bookstore, 800 Robson St, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, from 12:00-1:30 PM
September 20, 2007
Takemiya will give a lecture, “Shojo Manga Power! Girl Comics from Japan,” followed by a panel discussion featuring manga critic and editor Fujimoto Yukari and Professor Masami Toku at The Auditorium of the Asian Centre at UBC
September 21, 2007
Takemiya will give a lecture, “The Role of Manga in Contemporary Culture,” in the Main Theater at UBC’s Robson Square campus in downtown Vancouver, 800 Robson Street (near the Vancouver Art Gallery), followed by a panel discussion.

Don’t miss your chance to meet a true manga legend!

David Kalat at The NY Comic-Con, Saturday February 24, 8-9pm.

Randy Taguchi’s scheduled appearance at Barnes and Noble at Union Square on March 26 (Saturday), HAS CHANGED LOCATION. The new location is Kinokuniya at Rockefeller Center, which is on 49th St. between Fifth and Sixth Ave. The time of the event is still 3pm. If you have
further questions, please contact Anne Ishii.

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For anyone in the Boston area, don’t miss her at the Olin Center at Tufts University on March 28th from noon-2pm.

For anyone else in the general tri-state vicinity, please contact our publicity director, Anne Ishii, at 212-529-2350, for opportunities to sit in on the various reading groups that will be convening on March 24, 25, and 26th.

*events are generously funded by the Japan Foundation New York

Get ready to meet her by buying her novel and checking out our reading guide!

Joh Sasaki, military-thriller afficionado and author of Zero Over Berlin will be appearing at the Seattle Kinokuniya on March 12th from 2pm to 3pm, and at the Mechanics Institute Library on March 15th from 5:30pm, hosted by the Northern California Japan Society.