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