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Kurt, Pico, and Bambi

March 24, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

Yesterday the whole team was in Nara (30 minutes by train from Kyoto) to meet with the writer Pico Iyer — we’ve turned to him several times on the show for his keen, beautifully expressed observations of life in various corners of the world. Pico first came to Japan 20 years ago — and although […]

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March 24, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

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