Topic: Japanese life
Novelist Kenzaburo Oe once told journalist Patrick Smith that the West has just two images of Japan: The Japan of samurai, geisha and Zen on the one hand, and the Japan of Sony Playstation, anime and high-tech efficiency on the other. "Between the two, there is a blank where the Japanese live,"
--- Bruce Rutledge, "Kuhaku & Other Accounts from Japan" Chin Music Press, 2004
Updated: Friday, January 14, 2005 1:56 PM JST
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