Lost in Translation

Recommended by Roger

in response to Christine C

Books/articles to read before going to Japan? Could be fiction (ancient to modern), historical, current events. Something to understand or appreciate aspects of the culture and the land more deeply.

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This film by Sophia Coppola, based on her experience living there, is about two Americans who meet in Tokyo, but it vividly captures some of the contradictions in contemporary Japanese culture that I experienced working there for a few months in the mid 1990s.

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