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28 March 2014

To be Japanese today is to negotiate the conflicting dreams of east and west

It’s not surprising that alienation is a persistent theme in much of the country’s fiction.

By Yo Zushi

(Photo By Under the cherry blossoms trees in the Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden in Tokyo. Photo: Getty)

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