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The Essay Dark Blossoms Episodes

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  1. Japan Refusal

    5/5 Does mental illness in Japan indicate a rejection of a narrow modernity?

  2. The Art of the Heist

    4/5 How a famous crime is also a metaphor for 1960s Japan.

  3. Rebranding the Buddha

    3/5 How Buddhism was reimagined in the service of Japanese militarism.

  4. Happy Families

    2/5 Chris Harding explores contrasting models of 'family' in turn-of-the-century Japan.

  5. Deer Cry Hall

    1/5 Japan's uneasy embrace of modernity, exemplified by a controversial 19th-century building.