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THE MYSTERY OF THE GROWING NECK BUDDHA

Back in 1991, the head of the Manji–no–Sekibutsu (Stone Buddha of Manji), a 3.3–meter tall statue in Japan's mountainous Nagano Prefectu...

Neil Munro (left) with an Ainu. Perhaps the greatest champion of the Ainu people was the Scottish doctor, Neil Gordon Munro. Born in...

Maybe it's because of the big nose and the red face — like some grotesque characterization of Europeans — or it might just be the au...

If, as the British writer L.P. Hartley famously wrote, “the past is a foreign country,” then this paperback reprint of an 1880 travelogu...