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How bamboo farming in Japan balances tradition and modernity

In Chiba Prefecture, spring bamboo harvests with local families reveal how Japan carries ancient traditions into modern life.
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Rethinking Japan's modernity : stories and translations / M. William Steele

Pacific Vistas: California and the Opening of Japan -- Apocalypse Now: A Bottom-Up View of the Years 1853 to 1868 -- Fukuzawa Yukichi, "A Petition on the Subjugation of Chōshū -- That Terrible Year ...
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Why Japan Is So Difficult to Write About

The country’s aesthetics and inventions have spread far. It still remains a singular place. To accompany one of this issue’s stories, T invited three artists to make mascots inspired by The New York ...
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Ceramics and modernity in Japan edited by Meghen Jones and Louise Allison Cort

A potter's paradise: the realm of ceramics in modern Japan / Meghen Jones -- Tradition, modernity, and national identity: celadon production at the Makuzu ceramic workshop, 1870-1916 / Clare Pollard - ...