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Japan and the World

Christopher Harding

Weekly essays exploring Japan’s history, culture and global connections.

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See you in June!

Thank you for subscribing to my newsletter. I’m in the final few weeks of writing a book, and will return on 5th June.

Wishing you all the best meanwhile!

Chris

11 days ago
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Why Everything's Just Hunky Dory

No road trip in Ireland, it turns out, is complete without several packs of these:

The name ‘Tayto’ apparently comes from the way the young daughter of the company’s founder, back in the 1950s, pronounced the main ingredient of crisps.

T...

24 days ago
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The Sun King

Welcome back to the newsletter! Part of our Easter break was spent in southern Ireland, introducing my daughters to their Irish heritage via a journey around the famous Ring of Kerry.

Outside the car: the moody, romantic wash of the Atlant...

a month ago
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Samurai and Star Wars

Visitors to the Samurai exhibition at the British Museum will encounter, towards the end, one darkly familiar figure: a beautifully-lit Darth Vader from Star Wars.

For younger readers, this is one of the most famous film franchises in cin...

2 months ago
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How to Read a Japanese Garden

When someone says ‘samurai,’ what do you think of? Armour? Swords? Bloodshed?

All true enough, but a much-underrated part of the samurai image is the inveterate social climber. You start to see it in the era of the Kamakura shogunate, onc...

2 months ago
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    Author of Japan Story & A Short History of Japan. BBC broadcaster exploring the people and stories that shaped Japan.

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