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Mishima’s Horoscope: A Death foretold?
In 1968 two years before Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) killed himself astrological predictions about the fate of five popular Japanese writers, Shintaro Ishihara (1932-2022), Kenzaburo Oe… Read more »
History
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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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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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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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A British Publisher’s Adventures in the Japanese book system
I learned the art of reference book selling in US in the late 1970s. Macmillan was the publisher since 1979 of Sir George Grove’s (1820-1900) Dictionary of… Read more »
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