"Spirited Away to Miyazaki Land" by Sam Anderson (NYT, 2023)

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.

Nagakute, Japan

Visit

i found this article to be really beautiful and well-written, about an american reporter who's sent to the new Miyazaki theme park in Japan and it sort of subverts/evades/upends all of his expectations, revealing a lot about cultural differences between the US and Japan

a day ago