by Rebecca Copeland | Mar 25, 2026 | Japanese Literature
There’s a trend these days on social media to acknowledge “the last time” someone does something. Often, it’s something to mark a milestone. For example, the other day I saw a video of a mother telling her pre-adolescent son that she will always remember the first... 
by Rebecca Copeland | Mar 11, 2026 | Japanese Literature
“Pick a topic you love,” my PhD advisor told me. “You’re going to be working on it for years.” At first, I bristled at the advice, thinking he meant I was likely to take a long time finishing my dissertation. Was I really that slow? Later I came to understand. The... 
by Rebecca Copeland | Feb 25, 2026 | Japanese Literature
“Where did we leave off?” Ogikubo Sensei asked. I pulled my yellow legal pad out of my backpack and quickly thumbed through the pages until I reached what we had covered on October 16, 1997. A Thursday. We met each Thursday in Ogikubo Sensei’s office on the Kokugakuin... 
by Rebecca Copeland | Feb 11, 2026 | Japanese Literature
It’s almost Valentine’s Day, and engagement rings are everywhere! Will he propose? Will she say yes? And if the marriage doesn’t last, divorce rings are now in vogue. Women, primarily, celebrate divorce. They upcycle their old rings, refashioning them into something...
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