Dispatch № 38: As-Is

Photograph showing weathered stone fox carvings (of O-Inari) outside of a Shinto shrine in Urawa Ward, Saitama City, Japan

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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