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
Category: japan
Spring Back (The Blossom and the Memory)
‘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
My Desert Island: Japanese Films
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,
On Bauhaus, the Squirtle Squad and the Gothmother of Black: How Japanese Culture Shapes Your Life
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
Bossed in Translation
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
川の流れ/ Last Post from Japan (I’ll Be Back)
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
The Worlds Outside 