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Baby, it's hot outside

Japan's never-ending summer continues

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Matt Alt
Oct 24, 2024
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Who knew “Evangelion” was a documentary?

A little over a year ago, I wrote a piece for The New Yorker about how climate change is affecting Japanese culture in unexpected ways, from styles and fashions to traditions and even the language itself, as poetic kigo phrases fall out of synch with the seasons.

Now The New York Times has posted another example o…

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