Edging Toward Japan: The world’s best ramen
By Damian Flanagan
You may be familiar with the Juzo Itami film, “Tanpopo” (1985), whose picaresque…
Edging Toward Japan: The ‘I am Spartacus’ moment of the salarymen
By Damian Flanagan
Recently, while doing a workout at home, I flicked around TV apps and…
Edging Toward Japan 62: In Search of a Japan of cool summers and light nights
1823 Japanese map of Karafuto (Wikicommons, Public Domain)
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Edging Toward Japan: Embracing the otherness of the gaijin existence
Utagawa Yoshitora, “An American Carousing with a Japanese Woman”, 1861…