Life in General
Dispatch № 51: Communal Waters
Third places are important, but some are disappearing, public baths among them. This is one aspect of Japan’s declining social capital.
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Architecture
Dispatch № 41: An Impossible House by the Sea
There is a derelict house in my old neighborhood that surfaces in my dreams now and then. In reality, it is in Tokyo, boarded up and sitting behind a yard overgrown with tall grass.
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Life in General
Dispatch № 38: As-Is
Many people say they love Japan, but really only love a particular, highly distorted concept of it. They don’t realize it, and they don’t like it when you point it out.
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Life in General
Dispatch № 27: 2,194 Days
Six years I’ve been in Japan. This last Wednesday was my sixth Japaniversary. Rather than reflect on the occasion in my usual way, though, I thought I’d expore that time through numbers.
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At Home
Dispatch № 25: An Aside
Indulge me, if you would, and let me have a bit of an aside for today’s entry. The last couple of weeks have been incredibly intense and have contained both some of the most trying and most amazing moments of my life.
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