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Must-See Japan (2020 Edition): The complete insider's guide to seeing the best of Japan in one trip
Tom Fay • 11 highlights
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The human senses have powers that cannot always be explained by logic.
Marie Kondo • Spark Joy: An Illustrated Guide to the Japanese Art of Tidying
Before you know it, you start to see each and every person, everyone in the whole world, as your enemy.
Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga • The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
It is surprisingly easy to forget what you have witnessed, the horrifying image or the voice speaking the unspeakable, in order to exist in the world we must and we do forget, we live in a state of I know but I do not know.
Katie Kitamura • Intimacies: A Novel
And even though we saw the darkness coming we said nothing and let them dream on.
Julie Otsuka • The Buddha in the Attic
Not being born into a Japanese family, I’ve always felt like I can’t really see how older people here live — how they spend their time, what they feel, what their days are like.
So when my friend and I were invited for coffee at the home of Kiyoko-san — a Japanese granny living in rural Tochigi Prefecture (about 1.5 hours from Tokyo)... See more
instagram.comBack in 2008, a Bank of Korea report found that of 5,586 companies older than 200 years in 41 countries, 56% of them were in Japan. In 2019, there were over 33,000 businesses in Japan over a century old, according to research firm Teikoku Data Bank. The oldest hotel in the world has been open since 705 in Yamanashi and confectioner Ichimonjiya... See more
bbc.com • Why So Many of the World’s Oldest Companies Are in Japan
Japanese people have been excellent in perfecting technologies. The standard example was the way they improved on the Chinese abacus which has seven beads, two above, five below, rounded and noisy. The Japanese reduced the seven beads to five, one above, four below, with sharp edges, silent and fast. So too Japanese chopsticks. The pointed ends
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