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 | May 7, 2025 | Memories
“I don’t understand,” I said, as I read the letter a second time. It was short, barely two paragraphs. “We don’t understand, either,” Peter, the chair of my department, said as he turned to close the door to my office. The room was small and with all my books,...
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