Japan
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Tokyo Diary day #2
“It’s your holiday, do what you want to. The holiday police aren’t looking over your shoulder”. I was tired today, and felt bad that I wasn’t making more of my limited time in Tokyo. Flying feels a guilty miracle. All that carbon, all that waste, just to play board games online on the other side Read more
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REVIEW: A Tokyo Romance: A Memoir, by Ian Buruma
Note – this first appeared in my substack newsletter, which you can subscribe to here You know how it is. It’s the mid-seventies, you’re an upper-middle-class Anglo-Dutch student, and you’re macho-posing in a red jockstrap to Tom Jones’ “It’s Not Unusual” in a seedy theatre behind Kyoto station while a topless dancer writhes around you. Read more
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A cat cafe in Tokyo, October 2013
About a year ago, I went to a cat cafe in Tokyo. It was basically just a middle aged woman’s apartment, full of cats. We took the lift up to her floor. The doors opened directly into her hallway. She welcomed us and gestured to take off our shoes. She wouldn’t sell us any drinks, Read more
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