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Views from Japan — A More Meaningful Way to Experience Japan
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The word creation (sōsaku) quickly became the key word in the technocratic discourse of Manchuria (and of the empire later).
Hiromi Mizuno • Science for the Empire: Scientific Nationalism in Modern Japan
Back 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
absurdly smoky motsuyaki restaurants,
Mieko Kawakami, Sam Bett, • Breasts and Eggs
