So I wrote this piece for a travel writing competition. The task was to describe a local connection in seven hundred words. My essay didn’t

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So I wrote this piece for a travel writing competition. The task was to describe a local connection in seven hundred words. My essay didn’t
‘There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember. And there is pansies, that’s for thoughts […] there’s fennel for you, and columbines. There’s rue
When I lived in Japan, I didn’t watch many films. My Japanese never developed to the extent that I could really understand films without subtitles,
Like many people born in 1991, I first became aware of Japan when someone handed me a Vulpix trading card. Back then, I didn’t know
Iridescent and beautiful, with an eye for the smallest detail, Your Name is justifiably the best-known anime movie of the decade1. It takes place in
It is late October 2019; the trees along either bank of the Motoyasu are starting to turn pale orange and yellow and drop leaves into