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Soseki’s Cat: A Quantum Leap for Japanese Literature
The mysterious and magical effect of cats is widely celebrated. Cats entertain, evoke stress-reducing emotional responses, constantly and often counter-intuitively amuse, and cats – of… Read more »
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Literary Fallout: The legacies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The narrative of nuclear war began on 6 August 1945 and the term Atomic Bomb Literature, Genbaku Bungaku, started being used widely from the 1960s… Read more »
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Changing Nations: The Japanese Girl With a Book
A picture or indeed a single look is said to be worth a thousand words and a good work of art or a sketch, according… Read more »- TOPICS:
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Ultra-Influencers: The Two British Fictional Victorians that Changed Japan
Lasting influence, the power or capacity of causing an effect indirectly or directly in others, is a powerful and elusive trait that some individuals possess… Read more »
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The First Portable Device Loved by Japan’s Literati
Treasured by emperors and clutched by royalty as status symbols, these multi-functional devices initially evolved from wooden sticks used for note taking and record keeping…. Read more »
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Poems that Decode Japan’s Intellectual DNA: The Ambassador’s choice
Diplomats are perhaps thought of as having a limited interest in areas outside those that concern international relations, domestic political developments in the country where… Read more »
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Lafcadio the Greek: The Man Who Dreamed Japan
“Pray remember that your ancestors were the very Goths and Vandals who destroyed the marvels of Greek art which even Roman ignorance and ferocity had… Read more »
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The Literary Stations of Japan: Narratives from off and on the tracks
During most weekdays more people pass through Tokyo’s busiest station than live in Paris. The figures are staggering. Of the 50 busiest stations in the… Read more »
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Japan’s Olympic Literature: Stories from 1964, and Beyond
In 1964 the Beatles song I want to Hold Your Hand topped the bestselling charts in the United States and The New York Times Fiction Best Seller of… Read more »
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Japan’s Olympic Literature: Words and Deeds that shaped the movement
The Olympic movement and the Olympic Games themselves are global canvases that nations and ambitious individuals have used to create powerful narratives and lasting impressions…. Read more »
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