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How Ozu Created His Own Cinematic Language
The greatest filmmaker of postwar Japan found a new way to show life onscreen.
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Monsters Plague Japan. But What Do They Mean?
How ancient history and modern calamities have cultivated a national obsession with menacing creatures.
Dairy Changed Japan. Then Japan Changed Dairy.
How the 20th-century arrival of milk products shook up the country’s traditional ideas about creaminess.
10 Japanese Innovations That Shape Our Daily Lives
The country’s objects and ideas, including matcha and emojis, that have had an outsize influence on the world.