Tag: poverty
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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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It has now come to this
[This article was first published in Catalonia Today magazine, Oct. 2022.] The following is based on current and factual information… How would you fancy sleeping in a car or a van? Rather than the now antiquated 20th century idea of having your own bed in something as outdated as a house, for the price of…
Brett Hetherington 