The Untranslatable
Fabio CaipirinhaSome things don't survive the crossing. Weekly essays on leadership, language, and what you see when you've learned to think in more than one way. Published from Tokyo.
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Taylor Swift Is a Mirrorball
Rosa Rafael (@rosarafael)
Last week, I wrote about Jay-Z.
About the history he carries into every room he enters. About the decision — repeated, album after album — to make what he didn’t choose the engine of his work.
The same New Yor...
“It’s Like Air” from Jay-Z interview
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/04/27/magazine/jayz-songwriter-rap-brooklyn-artist.html
The New York Times recently asked 250 music insiders and critics to name the thirty greatest living American songwriters.
The list included...
When Language Thins, Feeling Thins With It
When the outline of feeling begins to blur
Living between languages teaches you something difficult to forget: some feelings can only be fully touched in one language.
Take the Japanese phrase mono no aware もののあはれ. Try translating it...
Kenkō and the Unfinished Moon
Moon - Alik Ghosh (@alikghosh) via Unsplash
I’ve written a few times on Yoshida Kenkō, the fourteenth-century Japanese monk and essayist, does not quite agree with himself.
His book, Tsurezuregusa, usually translated as Essays in Idlenes...
Perhaps I Am Continuing What Soseki Began
Natsume Sōseki from Wikipedia
I used to believe that a British education gave a person more than knowledge.
It seemed to offer legitimacy. A standard. A more correct way of being serious in the world.
I thought that if I passed through...
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Writer based in Tokyo. Shaped by life across five continents, I pursue one question: what do you see when you've learned to think in more than one way? Weekly essays on leadership, philosophy, Japan, and the ideas that resist easy translation.
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