The Unsaid Japan
KYO - Japanese writer, TokyoMottainai. Ma. Danshari. Japanese words that carry entire worldviews. I'm a Tokyo-born writer and former Japanese language teacher. Every issue, I take one thing Japan has left unsaid — and say it, carefully, in English.
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I Loved That Summer. I Never Agreed to It.
The summer I was sixteen, my parents read a newspaper article at breakfast and decided how I would spend my July.
The article was about a volunteer movement called the kusakari juujigun, the grass cutting crusade. It began in 1974 in Toyam...
For Four Years, One Pronoun
On jibun（自分） — the Japanese word for the self, written with two characters: self, and portion. What I learned in the years when an entire town called me by the same name.
A note before the essay. This is the first of the Sunday letters. Th...
What Your Body Remembers Being Taught
Japan has a category of kanji called kokuji: characters that did not come from China.
Almost everything else did. The writing system arrived by ship around fifteen centuries ago, tens of thousands of characters deep, and it covered nearly...
The Request Box
These essays keep reaching for Japanese words that English does not have. If you have met one that stayed with you, this is the place to hand it to me.
The box, and the few small rules that come with it, are below for paid subscribers.
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The Unsaid Dictionary
A reader asked for this page, and he was right to ask. These essays keep reaching for words that English does not have, and sometimes you remember the feeling but lose the word. This is where you find it again. One line for each word, and a...
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How you speak. How you move. How you listen. In Japan, each has invisible rules no one wrote down. I'm a writer in Tokyo, a former Japanese language teacher. Every issue, I take one thing Japan has left unsaid and say it, carefully, in English.
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