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#social

2 articles tagged #social.

• food

  Izakaya — the Japanese place that isn't a bar, isn't a restaurant, and quietly does what neither does

  Not a bar. Not a restaurant. The Japanese institution that quietly hosts most of the country's serious socializing.

• culture

  Hanami — the Japanese national ritual of sitting under temporarily-blooming trees, on purpose, with friends

  Japan plans its early-April calendar around a flower that blooms for one week. The whole country gathers under it on purpose.