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I am happy freelance translator and private guide in Tokyo, Japan. I am interested in everything East-Asia.

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  1. Issue · Sep 6, 2026

    The Vacuum Cleaner of Mt. Kōya (opens the original)

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    It is half past six in the morning in one of the more than one hundred temples on the sacred mountain of Koya-san. Still half asleep, the group I am guiding, together with several other groups from various European countries, slowly files into the temple’s main hall to witness the special goma fire ritual.The elderly priest impatiently points towards the middle row of low chairs reserved for our Dutch group, with the urgency of a Japanese train conductor worried that the timetable is about to be

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