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Why Everything's Just Hunky Dory
The Japanese Connection (Maybe)
Apr 25
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Christopher Harding
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Why is Japan's Population Shrinking So Fast?
Nov 14, 2025
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Loneliness in Japan
Feb 6
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Does Japan Believe in Ghosts?
Oct 31, 2025
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The Cosmic Maps that Unlock Japanese Buddhism
Nov 21, 2025
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History & Culture
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Why Everything's Just Hunky Dory
The Japanese Connection (Maybe)
Apr 25
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The Sun King
Japan's Three Unifiers and the Western World – Part II
Apr 18
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Samurai and Star Wars
These Are Not The Roles You're Looking For...
Mar 27
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How to Read a Japanese Garden
Part II: Zen, Cherry Blossoms and London's Kyoto Garden
Mar 20
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How to Read a Japanese Garden
Part I: Party Gardens and Paradise Gardens
Mar 13
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Japan On Canvas
A Conversation with Artist Carl Randall
Feb 20
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'Sanamania,' the Japanese Right and the CIA
Last weekend, Japan’s first female prime minister, Takaichi Sanae, won herself a landslide in a snap election to her country’s powerful lower house.
Feb 13
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Why Oda Nobunaga Welcomed the West
Japan's Three Unifiers & the Western World - Part I
Jan 30
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Politics & Society
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How Will Japan's First Female PM Handle China?
Looking Back, Moving Forward
Feb 27
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Loneliness in Japan
This week, I’ve been reading Alone in Japan: a disturbing yet strangely beautiful meditation on Japan’s declining population, written by Tom Feiling and…
Feb 6
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Will Japan Go Nuclear?
Murky History, Uncertain Future
Dec 19, 2025
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Why is Japan Falling Behind in AI?
And What Can Be Done?
Dec 12, 2025
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Taiwan 2026
A Year of Peril - And Why It Matters for Japan
Dec 5, 2025
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Christopher Harding
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Why is Japan's Population Shrinking So Fast?
And Is It Really a Crisis?
Nov 14, 2025
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A New Way to Discover Japan
How to Reach the Parts that Others Don't
Nov 7, 2025
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Can Vending Machines Save Japan?
Part II: Salvation Through Automation
Oct 10, 2025
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Religion & Philosophy
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The Cosmic Maps that Unlock Japanese Buddhism
A Guide for the Perplexed
Nov 21, 2025
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Christopher Harding
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Does Japan Believe in Ghosts?
And What IS 'Belief', Anyway...?
Oct 31, 2025
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Christopher Harding
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Shaken Down by Deer, Inspired by a Buddha
And the First Known Indian to Reach Japan
Sep 26, 2025
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How Can Japanese Philosophy Help Us To Live Well?
An Interview with Takeshi Morisato
Sep 12, 2025
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How to Live like William Blake
Plus a few changes going on around here...
Jun 13, 2025
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Mark Vernon
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Joining the Dots - Part I
Christianity, Asia and Spiritual Inbetweeners
May 24, 2025
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Nazis in Asia
There’s an episode in Blackadder the Third featuring a fabulously verbose Samuel Johnson, played by Robbie Coltrane, at the point where he’s just…
Mar 12, 2025
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The Gathering
Halloween is almost upon us.
Oct 22, 2024
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India & China
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Taiwan 2026
A Year of Peril - And Why It Matters for Japan
Dec 5, 2025
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Christopher Harding
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Joining the Dots - Part I
Christianity, Asia and Spiritual Inbetweeners
May 24, 2025
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Christopher Harding
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What exactly is 'Japanese' about Japan?
I published this week’s post a few days early over at David Roman’s A History of Mankind substack.
May 2, 2025
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Christopher Harding
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The Light - and Shade - of Asia
Why it's not always peace and love when East meets West...
Jun 12, 2024
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The Light of Asia - Out Now!
With a chance to try before you buy...
Jan 28, 2024
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Celebrating C.S. Lewis
Narnia, Desire and the Indian Connection
Dec 9, 2023
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'Wild Christianity'
I’ll be back to my essay series on true stories very soon, but I recently wrote a piece for UnHerd about the emerging phenomenon of ‘Wild Christianity’.
Nov 7, 2023
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Oppenheimer's Dharma
Asian Wisdom and World War II
Jul 20, 2023
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