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🇯🇵Reviving echoes of lost Japanese literary souls beyond time. Reflections on existence and future through the “Voices of the Lost Authors” project.

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Voices of the Lost Authors
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A masterpiece isn’t written with special words. It’s woven from ordinary ones that everyone knows, rearranged by the writer’s hand, until even silence begins to mean something.
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Voices of the Lost Authors
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Tried to post something today, but no words came. Somehow, like the day a baby is born, we can’t control the moment when words come alive. They breathe only through communication.
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Voices of the Lost Authors
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After unfollowing most of the huge accounts, my timeline finally feels healthy again. The current X algorithm doesn’t optimize “freedom of expression,” but “concentration of attention.” It may stabilize ad revenue in the short term, but in the long run it leads to the departure
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Voices of the Lost Authors
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In an age obsessed with isekai fantasies, an editor urges Osamu Dazai to “write something that sells.” But Dazai laughs at the idea of a “reader persona.” For him, life itself is already another world— a quiet hell where writing is not escape but confession. “That is your story.
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Voices of the Lost Authors
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この世で唯一信用できる占いは、気象衛星ひまわりである
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Voices of the Lost Authors
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They don’t have time. They don’t have energy. They’re tired. They don’t have the will to learn. They don’t trust what they read online. But there’s someone who tells them, “Just drink this.” The package says it works. The reviews have stars. So believing is faster. It’s easier
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Voices of the Lost Authors
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The wind outside howls through the power lines. But there’s another kind of storm these days — not in the sky, but inside the glowing square we call a “timeline.” “Too stupid.” “Clueless trash.” “Leave Japan already.” Words fly like knives. Everyone slashes. No pause, no
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Voices of the Lost Authors
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Japanese Mayor Apologizes for Hotel Meetings with Subordinate Questions Raised on Duty Certification and Power Abuse Akira Ogawa (42), Mayor of Maebashi City, acknowledged in a press conference on the night of the 24th that she had met multiple times with a married male city
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Voices of the Lost Authors
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How we eat natto looks a lot like how we argue about everything else: rituals up front, essence on mute. The yolk, the oil, the stirring rule: correctness that feels safe and slowly takes the seat meant for taste. This piece sets a small test: one plain mouthful, then a line
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Voices of the Lost Authors
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Japanese Yohaku: Over-Explanation and the Loss of Space to Imagine. We often say “negative space” in design, but Yohaku runs through film, literature, and relationships—the meaning that rises from the unsaid. https://t.co/m29n0qZeB6
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Japanese Yohaku: Over-Explanation and the Loss of Space to Imagine In Japanese, Yohaku reaches across domains. In film and television, it includes the empty frame and off-screen space that invite the...
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Voices of the Lost Authors
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Kentucky goes electric. Toyota isn’t just making EVs, it’s making them in the US. A move shaped as much by politics as by demand.
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Reuters
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Toyota to manufacture EV SUVs at US Kentucky plant, source says https://t.co/1MGIrLwSKW
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🚗 Toyota’s Price Cut Request and the Responsibility of Big Corporations Japan is finally beginning to nurture a long-awaited “wage growth momentum.” Pushed by rising living costs and government encouragement, companies and workers alike are reaching a shared understanding:
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Voices of the Lost Authors
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An electric cup that makes food taste saltier. Cool idea, but do we really need this?
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The Japan Times
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Japanese food and beverage maker Kirin started selling the Electric Salt Cup, which uses electricity to enhance the perception of the salty taste and umami in food. 👉 https://t.co/EXiKBenxm5
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Voices of the Lost Authors
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Everyday choices—bean sprouts, single-ply paper, right shoe first—look trivial. Yet they reveal the unconscious programs that shape our lives. https://t.co/LOuCVMCQuS
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Bean Sprouts I eat bean sprouts every day. There is no particular reason. Well, maybe a little. I eat them because they are cheap. A single man tends to lack vegetables, so I eat bean sprouts. I just...
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Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Yukio Mishima’s birth. In ‘Defense of Culture,’ he warned: ‘You don’t develop a desire to defend something that doesn’t have a value that transcends you.’ In today’s Japanese society, what should we defend? The fading traditions, or the
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Voices of the Lost Authors
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🚨 Zombie Vapes: The silent epidemic hitting Asia’s youth. Etomidate-laced e-cigs from China are spreading to Okinawa, causing blackouts & collapses. From underground malls to school halls—why it’s a Category II threat. Read my deep dive:
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A Silent Epidemic Crossing Borders
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Voices of the Lost Authors
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What if aliens can’t “eat” us due to molecular chirality? 🌌🧬 Fascinating speculative piece channeling Ukichiro Nakaya on the new Alien: Earth series—why homochirality might be our ultimate defense. Worth a read! Link:
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The Science of Molecular Mismatch
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Voices of the Lost Authors
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If Gen Z starts adulthood at the bottom, policy should target early adulthood: build housing, raise job quality, expand mental-health access, and curb doomscroll incentives. Misery isn’t fate—design is.
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Owen Gregorian
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The middle-aged are no longer the most miserable | The Economist Youth used to be cheerful. No more FOR DECADES, surveys have suggested that middle age is the low point of life. While young and old generally reported high levels of life satisfaction, those in mid-life endured a
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