Voices | FOREIGN AGENDA Sep 1, 2019
Making sense of the oppressiveness of summer in Japan
by Damian Flanagan
Japan has a venerable tradition of quirky and inventive means of escape from the oppression of summer, as well as from rigid social constraints and conventions. Some of them take distinctly weird forms. In Edogawa Ranpo's classic story, "The Stalker in the Attic" (1925), ...