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Pallavi Aiyar

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Pallavi Aiyar is an award-winning foreign correspondent and the author of seven books, including, most recently, Orienting: An Indian in Japan.
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Top 10 Things to Know if You’re Moving to Japan

To arrive in the Japanese capital, Tokyo, can be a sensorially confounding experience. It is a city of some 30 million people, with troops of skyscrapers stampeding across it, often…
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Wading into Japan’s Complex Onsen Culture

It took me close to two years of living in Japan before I lost my onsen-virginity. By this time, I’d acculturated to the point of dreaming of sushi. I’d joined…
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