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Flowing into the Future: Tokyo by Water

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“It is all but forgotten today that Tokyo’s low city was once a city equal to Venice in its charms,”

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Hiroshige Does Dylan

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Bob Dylan and girlfriend walk off the Freewheelin’ album cover and into a Hiroshige snow scene

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Rock Gods in Japan: Who’s Appropriating Who?

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A famous number of theirs compares a girlfriend’s physical attributes to those of a high-performance sports car.

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From Endo to Dylan: TV Ads Bridge the Cultural Divide

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Ground-breaking film director Nagisa Oshima, peddled cockroach-repellent and air-freshener.

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One More Cup of Saké for the Road: Dylan Translated and Transformed

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Borges favoured “happy and creative infidelity” and rejected the very concept of a definitive text.

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Tangled Up In Tokyo: the Japanese Side of Bob Dylan

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In the late 1960s, there was a ramshackle coffee-shop called Dylan in Osaka’s Namba entertainment district which served as a meeting-place for musicians, hippies, theatre people and student radicals.

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Democracy: Ask an Expert, or Maybe Not

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To adapt Bob Dylan, for both countries “the future is already a thing of the past.”

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Memories of Silk and Straw

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Infanticide and the sale of daughters into prostitution were necessary evils