Japan

Japan is the world’s most rapidly-aging nation. To cite just one of many extraordinary data points, in 2012 its citizens bought more diapers for adults than for children.

The tree does its best with what it gets.

The sun begins to sink. It is time for the cats to come. He knows that he is irretrievably lost. This is no town of cats, he finally realizes. It is the place

She would have liked a lotus, or China asters or the Japanese Iris, or meadow lilies—yes, she would have liked meadow lilies, because the very word meadow made her breathe more deeply, and either fling her arms or want to fling her arms, depending on who was by, rapturously up to whatever was watching in the sky. But dandelions were what she