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ENCOUNTERS: Real Geisha, Peter Macintosh; My Mother's Flat, Leng Woo; A Nuclear Family, Tamara Loomis, Rumors, Maggie Kinser Saiki; Telephoning in the Twilight Zone, Judith Clancy.
ARTICLES: Rockets for Rain, Thailand's wild bang fai ritual, photos and text by Olivier Pin-Fat; Going Geisha, a searching look behind the latest US infatuation, by Noy Thrupkaew; Imagining Lady Murasaki - Liza Dalby, interviewed by Sally McLaren; Kato Shuichi on Everything, one of Japan's last Renaissance men, interviewed by Marc P. Keane and Jeffery Irish; The Profligate's Wife, a true tale retold by David Greer; Voices from a Dark Place, Japan's military sexual slavery revisited by Toyoshima Mizuho; Revolutionary Muse, a profile of Chiranan Pitpreecha, by Philip J. Cunningham, Sexism by Roger Pulvers
POETRY: The Dazzling Night, a modern Noh play by Rachel McAlpine; Six Tanka by Nurse Yamamoto, translated by Omitsu and Card
FICTION: Alt Heidelburg, by Dazai Osamu, translated by Ralph F. McCarthy
REVIEWS: The Donald Richie Reader;Geisha: the Secret History of a Vanishing World; Geisha: a Living Tradition; The Life of a Geisha; Unjust Enrichment: How Japan's Companies Built Postwar Fortunes Using American POWs; Religions of the Silk Road: Overland Trade and Cultural Exchange from Antiquity to the Fifteenth Century; Kimono - Vanishing Tradition: Japanese Textiles of the 20th Century; Thunder in the East: Portrait of a Rising Asia; Min'You, Folk Song from Japan.
RAMBLE: Variety and What Happened to It by Robert Brady

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Street, Just Deeds, Transience, Media in Asia, Time, Transforming Conflict, Inaka, Orthodoxy & Heresy, Word, Sacred Mountains of Asia, The Death & Resurrection of Kyoto, Radicalism of Cultural Continuity, Neighborhoods, Allure of the Exotic, Kyoto Speaks, Eros, Japan in the Year 2020

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