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Urban Japan: The True Cost of Cars and Parking
Free street parking is not exactly free, and most Americans are paying a lot for it without knowing. This week we look at the real cost of street…
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Patrick M. Lydon
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Urban Japan: Why Is It So Good?
This week starts a series revolving around the neighborhood below, a typical urban neighborhood in Japan.
Sep 25
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Summoning Sacred Nature to the City
If you see an odd person with a basket on their head and a bamboo flute in their hands, you might have happened upon a flute-playing assassin-monk…
Sep 19
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Patrick M. Lydon
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Hokusai, Oi, and the Ecological Mega-City
For development to be useful and sane, it must be tethered to the reality of our place in nature and the cosmos.
Sep 11
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Patrick M. Lydon
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Five Views of Three Japanese Cities
This week I offer a handful of sketches, from scenes that linger in my memory — not because of their grandeur, but because of their simplicity. Step…
Sep 4
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Patrick M. Lydon
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Mojiko: Where the Wind Stops, the Sun Returns
This shop is a business and businesses deal in transactions. Yet nothing about our visits ever feels transactional. This draws us closer.
Aug 28
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Patrick M. Lydon
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Mojiko: A Family Liquor Shop and the Re-Imagining of Old Things
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Aug 22
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Patrick M. Lydon
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Mojiko and Kokura: Finding Your Inner Garden with Tsuboniwa
Morning in the guest house is quiet enough to hear the ocean wind several blocks away as it rushes between the buildings and into the flat expanse of…
Aug 7
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Patrick M. Lydon
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Mojiko: We are Strange Tourists
On a slow travel journey in Mojiko, Japan, an evening walk leads to unexpectedly delicious food and reflections on what it means to belong to a place.
Jul 31
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Patrick M. Lydon
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Mojiko: Walking Under the Ocean
In case you are just joining us, the previous installment of this writing is here:
Jul 24
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Patrick M. Lydon
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Shimonoseki: The Simple Gratitude of a Pedestrian
When arriving in a place, I try to take a moment before doing anything substantial, to mark that arrival. There are various ways of doing this, but it…
Jul 17
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A Line, Between the Ocean and the Stars
We take the train to Busan in the afternoon and board an overnight ferry bound for the Japanese port city of Shimonoseki.
Jul 9
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Patrick M. Lydon
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