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Saturday, March 12, 2016

Respectable Republican Cloth Coat

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    Today it has been one week since I left for Japan, and though there's much more to say, my mind simply balks at the prospect ...
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Friday, March 11, 2016

Japan Diary #5: Taking the Shinkansen

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      KUMAMOTO— I flew over on one of the new Boeing 787s, and while I appreciated the accommodate-the-human-body-and-not-a-centimeter-...
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Thursday, March 10, 2016

Japan Diary #4: More to it than just that bomb

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     Hiroshima is a fun town.      That will sound odd, almost sacrilegious to those who know just one thing about the 1oth largest ci...
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Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Japan Diary #3 — Tokyo Subway

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     Chicago has some 2.7 million people, using 102 miles of its L subway system.      Tokyo has 13.8 million people and 121 miles of ...
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Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Japan Diary # 2: Rain

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Imperial Palace grounds.      TOKYO —The plan was to start Monday touring the city's Harajuku district, talking to the Lolita goths...
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Monday, March 7, 2016

Japan Diary #1: How about some pig's rectum with that?

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     TOKYO— It's been so long that I've sat among smokers at dinner that I forgot that, in Japan, it's still a thing. It didn...
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Sunday, March 6, 2016

Japan is a strange place

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Samuri armor, Los Angeles County Museum of Art      About 2 a.m. Sunday, Chicago time, I'll be stepping off a plane at Narita airpo...
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