Last February, Asian Writer-in-Residence Ian Hideo Levy visited the East Asian Languages and Cultures department of Stanford University for two weeks and gave a public talk and lecture, "The World in Japanese," at the Humanities Center. Levy is the first Westerner to write critically-acclaimed fiction in Japanese. Levy also held a workshop on “Japanese in the World,” with discussants, Professors James Reichert and Ban Wang, both of Stanford University, and Professor Christopher Scott of Macalester College.