As part of the Japan Spring Festival, the National Library of Russia hold an exhibition titled "Japan: The Faces of Time" in its Exhibition Hall from 20 Mach to 8 April. This is an annual cultural event organized by the NLR in collaboration with Consulate General of Japan and the Association of International Cooperation.

The library offered visitors an opportunity to enter into the world of samurai and geishas, sudoku and anime, to understand why Japan is referred to as the "economic miracle", and how the country managed to preserve traditions, incorporating them into our modern days, to become acquainted with the vast literary heritage of the modern Japanese writers.

Books, presented in the exhibition, were published in Russia in the 1990s - 2000s:

• Kobo Abe. The Woman in the Dunes
• Ruth Benedict. The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture
• Great Atlas of BONSAI
• M.E.Vitvitskiy. Ikebana. Arrangement. Florists
• Herbert Bix. Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
• N.L.Druzhinin. Japan: Economic Miracle. Publishing house «Peter»
• Vadim Eliseeff, Daniel Eliseeff. Japanese Civilization. Publishing house «Factoria»
• V.V.Zhirinovsky. Russia and Japan. The International Library of the Liberal Democratic Party
• Familiarize Yourself with Japan
• Selected Scientific Works of Saint Nicholas, Archbishop of Japan
• Kazuo Ishiguro. When We Were Orphans
• The History and Culture of Japan
• Jonathan Edward Kidder. Japan Before Buddhism
• Eteri Kikabidze. Japan: Entering the Twenty-first Century with Biotechnology
• V. Kozhevnikov. Persons in Medieval Japan
• Constitutions of Foreign Countries: the European Union. – Tutorial, Moscow, Publishing house «BEK»
• Mitsuo Kure. Samurai: Àn Illustrated History
• I.Latyshev. Putin and Japan. Will there be Concessions?
• A.I.Latyshev. Japan, the Japanese and Japanologists
• I.P. Lebedeva. Japan: Industry and Business
• A.N.Meshcheryakov. To Be Japanese
• A.N.Meshcheryakov. The Meiji Emperor and his Japan
• A.N.Meshcheryakov. The Book of Japanese Symbols
• A.N.Meshcheryakov. The Japanese Emperor and the Russian Tsar
• The Wisdom of a Geisha, or a Kimono Embroidered with Dragons
• Haruki Murakami. Portraits in Jazz
• Kenji Maruyama. Deaths in Tokimeki. (In the Russian translation the novella is called Heartwork)
• V.I.Mukhina. International Marriages in Japan: the Stages of the History, Current Trends and Issues
• N.S.Nikolaeva. Japanese Gardens. Publishing house «ART-rodnik»
• The First Japanese Embassies in Russia
• The First Professional Russia's Japanologist. The Experience of Latvian-Russian-Japanese Research of the Life and Work of E.G.Spalvin
• Michael Porter, Hirotaka Takeuchi, Mariko Sakakibara. Can Japan Compete? (In the Russian translation the book is called The Japanese Economic Model)
• A.Prasolov. Japan: the Faces of the Time
• Edogawa Rampo. The Beast in the Shadows
• V.G.Rastyannikov, I.V.Deryugin. Models of Rural Growth in the Twentieth Century
• Ryunosuke Akutagawa. Kodoku Jigoku. (In the Russian translation the novel is called The Hell of the Loneliness)
• Shinto. The Way of the Japanese Gods
• D.T.Suzuki. Zen and Japanese Culture
• I.S.Tikhotskaya. Japan: the Problem of Waste Disposal.
• The Criminal Code of Japan, Vladivostok, 2000
• K.E.Cherevko. The Birth of Russian-Japanese Relations in the 17th - 19th Centuries. Publishing house "«Nauka»
• Encyclopedia of Netsuke: Amulets and Talismans
• Japanese Phenomenon

The book exhibition is accompanied by the photo display «A Russian Hedgehog in Japan» about the life of Japanese cities through Russian tourists' camera lenses.