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Louder in Japan November 20, 2024
In the years before publishing his first novel, 1979’s Hear the Wind Sing, Haruki Murakami ran a jazz bar. The Japanese writer met his wife, Yoko, in the early 1970s, and as students at Waseda University in Tokyo, the pair opened Peter Cat, a small e...
The Rebel Cult of Murakami November 18, 2024
For middle-aged Japanophiles, the recent Japan boom among the young can at times feel exhausting. Japanese pop, rapid and relentless, sounds like something put together by toddlers on a sugar binge. Meanwhile, the popularity in the West of manga and ...
What to Read Next If You've Got 'Shogun' Fever April 18, 2024
While you may have enjoyed the samurai stylings of Hulu’s Shogun—the plotting, the fighting, the politicking, the seppuku—would you believe it was actually based on a true story? Okay fine, the based-on-a-true-story of it all was probably clear all a...
Keeping the Republic April 04, 2024
“The Constitution Is Broken And Should Not Be Reclaimed.” This headline from a New York Times editorial written by two law professors (from Harvard and Yale), is simply a more hyperbolic expression of a point of view that has become increasingly prom...
