Book Review: "Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns" by Isaac Titsingh

Accounts of foreign lands are interesting both because of what they reveal about the country but also because of what they reveal abou...

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COLIN LIDDELL ON JAPANESE WORLD RECORDS

Colin Liddell interviewed by Kamasami Kong on the Metropolis Metpod about " Records of the Rising Sun ."

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Sailor Moon Re-Imagined

The Sailor Moon characters re-imagined by Italian artist Angela Vianello .  The delicate girly warriors of the original are toughened ...

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The Resurgence of a Japanese Literary Master

Fifty years after his death, Yukio Mishima is reemerging in translation Yukio Mishima may have gone out in an inglorious blaze in ...

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Podcast: Colin Liddell on "Erotic Haiku"

Back in 2007, podcasts were still something of a novelty. Metropolis , Tokyo's leading English magazine at the time, was an early ...

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