Island hopping: The author on a South Korean junket to Takeshima that got him called into the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Confessions of a foreign correspondent after a half-decade of reporting from Tokyo to his German readers 日本語訳はこちら by Carsten Germis M y bags are packed, as the song goes. After more than five years as the Tokyo correspondent for the German daily, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
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