When White Poets Pretend to Be Asian
When it comes to literary hoaxes, it seems somehow easier to fake Asia, a land still distant and inscrutable to many Americans.Photograph by Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty In 1991, literary magazines around the United States began receiving mysterious packages containing the poems of Araki Yasusada, a deceased and entirely unknown Japanese poet with a spectacular backstory: he was a lonesome Hiroshim
How an Élite University Research Center Concealed Its Relationship with Jeffrey Epstein
How an Élite University Research Center Concealed Its Relationship with Jeffrey Epstein New documents show that the M.I.T. Media Lab was aware of Epstein’s status as a convicted sex offender, and that Epstein directed contributions to the lab far exceeding the amounts M.I.T. has publicly admitted. Update: On Saturday, less than a day after the publication of this story, Joi Ito, the director of th
Japan’s Rent-a-Family Industry
The head of one rental-relative company described the service as “human affection expressed through the form of the family.”Illustration by Javier Jaén Editors’ Note: In 2019, the Japanese press uncovered evidence that an employee of Family Romance, a Japanese rental-family agency described in this piece, had falsely posed as a client of the company in a TV documentary. As a result of this revelat
The United States of Japan
An attendee of Chicago’s Pokémon Go Fest, in July, 2017. Hit Japanese products such as Pokémon have long captivated us, but Japan's most influential export might be its own lived experience.Photograph by Daniel Boczarski / Getty Thanks to hip-hop and Hollywood, the United States is still the world’s leading cultural exporter. But, in recent years, American culture has increasingly been following a
Hiroshima
A hundred thousand people were killed by the atomic bomb. Survivors wonder why they lived when so many others died.Photograph from Rolls Press / Popperfoto / Getty I—A Noiseless FlashAt exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East
A Letter from Goldman Sachs « Borowitz Report
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Last Call
Ittetsu Nemoto near his temple, in Gifu prefecture. Japan’s suicide rate is nearly twice that of the United States.Photograph by Pari Dukovic From time to time, Ittetsu Nemoto gets a group of suicidal people together to visit popular suicide spots, of which there are many in Japan. The best known is Aokigahara forest, the Sea of Trees, at the foot of Mt. Fuji. The forest became associated with sui
Small Change
Social media can’t provide what social change has always required.SEYMOUR CHWAST At four-thirty in the afternoon on Monday, February 1, 1960, four college students sat down at the lunch counter at the Woolworth’s in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina. They were freshmen at North Carolina A. & T., a black college a mile or so away. “I’d like a cup of coffee, please,” one of the four, Ezell Blair,
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