Tag: Japan
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The Cape and Other Stories from the Japanese Ghetto
My brief review of Kenji Nakagami’s noir masterpiece [Parts of this review were first published in an edition of Kansai Scene in 2002.] Kenji Nakagami is a writer whose work opens up a side of Japan usually well-hidden from the foreign eye. And for that matter, from many other Japanese people. He once said that…
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In a small world
[This article was first published in Catalonia Today magazine, December 2020.] Barcelona isn’t well-known for flamenco but Kayoko Nakata, thinks it should be. As a Japanese flamenco dancer with a Catalan husband and two year-old son, she lives near the city’s Sant Pau hospital. When she can, she goes back to her…
Brett Hetherington 