It is quite difficult to find good non-fictions texts on Japan and The Passenger: Japan fills the gap wonderfully. You can read an excellent essay by Richard Lloyd Parry, which was later developed into a book Ghosts of the Tsunami, an essay of Ryōko Sekiguchi on unpaid domestic work done by women, a reportage by Jake Adelstein (author of The Last Yakuza) about a Shinto sect that has a large influence on Japanese politics, or a beautiful text by Banana Yoshimoto about one of Tokyo’s neighborhoods, Shimokitazawa.
The texts are accompanied by beautiful photos, graphics, diagrams and drawings, which make it into something that you keep coming back to – especially since it is printed on beautiful paper and folded in such a lovely way that we regret not having published such a collection ourselves. A wonderful thing, especially when it’s difficult to travel to Japan in person.
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