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This beast is preceded by a reputation that transcends oceans and mountains: it is said to originate from the depths of the forests of Hyrcania, the wild, rugged, evergreen land that borders the Caspian Sea. Its name is at once a curse and an incantation.
It is reputed to be swift as an arrow, wild as the Tigris, the fastest flowing of all rivers, f
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They were afraid because we were new models, and they feared that before long their children would decide it was time to have them thrown away, to be replaced by AFs like us.
Kazuo Ishiguro • Klara and the Sun: 'A masterpiece.' Sunday Times
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era
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Makiko was a hostess, but that can mean all kinds of different things. Some good, some not so good. Osaka is rife with drinking spots, but an address is enough to tell you what you should expect, in terms of clientele and atmosphere and hostesses. She worked in Shobashi, the neighborhood the three of us worked in for years after we ran off that nig
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Toshiyuki Kurosu in gakuran school uniform (left) and first suit jacket (right). (Courtesy of Toshiyuki Kurosu)
W. David Marx • Ametora
How ingenious that Dieter Schwarz who had made it possible to buy granola for a quarter of the price you could get it for in Japan.
Diana Evans • Ordinary People: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019
EVERY EVENING, at dusk, we began burning our things: old bank statements and diaries, Buddhist family altars, wooden
Julie Otsuka • The Buddha in the Attic
not ethnological,