Edging Toward Japan
Columns by Damian Flanagan, a researcher on Japanese literature, written as he travels between Japan and Britain.
Edging Toward Japan: Is there such a thing any more as an 'Expert on Japan'?
By Damian FlanaganThe other week I was asked by a magazine to review a couple of chunky books on the history of manga and, thinking this might be an i Full article
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Edging Toward Japan: Wandering the graveyard of dead Japanese words
(2026/3/15)
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Edging Toward Japan: Japan's top tip to the world - ditch tipping (and haggling) if you can
(2026/1/18)
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Edging Toward Japan: A Japanese pathway through classical civilization
(2025/12/7)
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Edging Toward Japan: The Swiftest means of getting to Japan
(2025/11/30)
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Edging Toward Japan: The Russian dolls of Japanese literature
(2025/11/23)
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Edging Toward Japan: What does being literate in Japanese really mean?
(2025/11/16)
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Edging Toward Japan: Japan, too, knows all about violent democracy
(2025/11/9)
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Edging Toward Japan: Does Japan have a flavour all its own?
(2025/11/2)
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Edging Toward Japan: Even 'homogenous' societies like Japan have always been multicultural
(2025/9/14)
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Edging Toward Japan: Yoshida Shigeru's philosophy of work should be world famous
(2025/9/7)
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Edging Toward Japan: The world's best ramen
(2025/8/31)
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Edging Toward Japan: The 'I am Spartacus' moment of the salarymen
(2025/8/17)
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Edging Toward Japan: Does Japanese dress maketh the man or woman?
(2025/8/10)
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Edging Toward Japan: The Japanese soul of John Lennon
(2025/8/3)
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Edging Toward Japan: Chiharu Shiota: The strands of blood that both terrify and bind
(2025/7/27)
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Edging Toward Japan: Expressing Solidarity with the 'Expo Lady'
(2025/7/20)
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Edging Toward Japan: Mystified by the success of 'Shogun'
(2025/7/13)
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Edging Toward Japan: Japan's greatest gift to the world may yet be Mister Donut
(2025/6/29)
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Edging Toward Japan: Tokyo's Azabudai Hills is an Incredible Wonder of the World
(2025/6/22)
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Edging Toward Japan: Japan's extraordinary pursuit of the ordinary
(2025/6/15)
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Edging Toward Japan: In Search of a Japan of cool summers and light nights
(2025/6/8)
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Edging Toward Japan: The Japanese discovery of the colour blue
(2025/6/1)
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Edging Toward Japan: Samuel Pepys and Sei Shonagon - the ultimate love match
(2025/5/25)
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Edging Toward Japan: Embracing the otherness of the gaijin existence
(2025/5/11)
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Edging Toward Japan: Is there such a thing as a 'Kabuki of the mind'?
(2025/5/4)
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Edging Toward Japan: Every parliament needs an element of theatre
(2025/4/27)
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Edging Toward Japan: The problem of over-tourism in Japan is founded on a historical misconception
(2024/7/30)
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Edging Toward Japan: How a dying tree taught me the true meaning of wabi-sabi
(2024/7/16)
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Edging Toward Japan: My Eighteen Pathways to Karaoke
(2024/7/3)
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Edging Toward Japan: Is the Japanese language becoming more emotional?
(2024/6/11)
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Edging Toward Japan: In his mind's eye, Rembrandt was always headed toward Japan
(2024/6/4)
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Edging Toward Japan: East Asia's political tensions are embedded in language itself
(2024/3/11)
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Edging Toward Japan: The strange saga of Yukio Mishima and Noh theatre in New York
(2024/3/4)
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