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 | Jan 28, 2026 | Japanese Culture
“No, I do not want to write a report for you in Japanese,” I declared, being uncharacteristically blunt. I’d been doing research in Japan for over ten years now. I understood the importance of courtesy and willingness to acquiesce to requests, no matter how...
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