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Thoughts on peace, education, sustainability, and local life in suburban Japan.

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  1. Issue · Sep 28, 2026

    Eight Million Ways to Happiness by Hiroko Yoda (opens the original)

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    If I were a bookstore clerk—one kind of dream job—tasked with shelving ’s debut solo work, Eight Million Ways to Happiness, I’d be in a jam. The book could just as easily fit in non-fiction sections reserved for memoir, spirituality, Japan studies, and religious anthropology. For those not familiar with the Japanese phrase the title references, it might sound a bit self-helpy, but “Self-help” is not a section I’d consider. But curse all tho

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