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Japan

DD Records: The remarkable story behind the 'chaotic, eccentric but heartfelt' Japanese DIY label
Music

DD Records: The remarkable story behind the 'chaotic, eccentric but heartfelt' Japanese DIY label

Disk Musik is a gloriously odd, hyper-local artefact from a micro-scene that barely registered outside of its own social circle
Japanese atomic bomb survivor Jiro Hamasumi: 'Nuclear weapons must not coexist with humanity'
Nuclear disarmament

Japanese atomic bomb survivor Jiro Hamasumi: 'Nuclear weapons must not coexist with humanity'

Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa review – a remarkable and original study of yearning
Books

Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa review – a remarkable and original study of yearning

Top 5 novels from Japan, chosen by Nick Bradley
Fiction

Top 5 novels from Japan, chosen by Nick Bradley

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