My taxi driver and I stood in the middle of a Tokyo cemetery, lost among the graves of long-dead Japanese luminaries. It was May of 2017, and I had set aside a couple of days to see the traces of Natsume Soseki’s life in his native city. I knew there wouldn’t be much: in addition to a century’s worth of razing and rebuilding, Tokyo burned twice after th…
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