The APA has put out the Fall 2012 Newsletter on Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies. The main topic this time is a report on a panel discussion of Japanese aesthetics from last year. Follow the link to read short versions of:

• Scents and Sensibility: Kuki Shūzō and Olfactory Aesthetics (Peter Leech)
• Japanese Post-War Literary Aesthetics: Rewriting the Traditional in the Post-Atomic World (Mara Miller)
• The Moral Dimension of Japanese Aesthetics (Yuriko Saito)
• Elegance in Japan (Barbara Sandrisser)