The Tokyo Writers Workshop has been meeting regularly for about thirty years. We are an eclectic bunch of mostly native English speakers, ranging in age from 20s to 60s, teachers mainly, but also journalists and people in business. Some of us publish regularly, some not, and some have aspirations in that direction. We meet on the third Sunday of most months to read and make constructive comments on each other’s work. Most of the work is fiction and poetry, but other genres are welcome. Our forma …