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Is Japan Stuck In the Past?

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Ben Sixsmith
Jan 25, 2023
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I have no plans to ever leave Poland but if I do — which is far from impossible — I hope I won’t sit down and pen an op-ed laying out its good and bad points in the manner that one might review a restaurant.

To be fair to Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, the BBC’s outgoing Tokyo correspondent, some of the annoying features of his reflection on leaving Japan have…

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