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Meiyouren Yuedu Pinglun, Part One

6th April 2024 Joe Slater 0

没有人阅读评论 Meiyouren Yuedu Pinglun (Nobody Reads the Comments) “SINCE 1978 China has liberated more people from poverty than any other country in history, partly because China before 1978 consigned more people to poverty than anywhere [more…]

Literature

The Platform at Aston Rowant

16th March 2024 Joe Slater 0

From Aston Rowant to Kingston Blount From halt to halt, it beetled west For miles below the Chiltern crest A country line, of no account .. Now trains no longer skirt these hills And fencing [more…]

Biography

Going Postal, Part Three

9th March 2024 Joe Slater 0

Just before 2000, I decided to give up a well-paid job and comfortable life in Japan to make a new start in my homeland. I had bought a share in a house in south London, [more…]

Biography

Going Postal, Part Two

2nd March 2024 Joe Slater 0

Just before 2000, I decided to give up a well-paid job and comfortable life in Japan to make a new start in my homeland. I had bought a share in a house in south London, [more…]

Biography

Going Postal, Part One

24th February 2024 Joe Slater 0

Just before 2000, I decided to give up a well-paid job and comfortable life in Japan to make a new start — please don’t laugh — in my homeland. England. Get back to my roots. [more…]

Literature

The Station at Aston Rowant

17th February 2024 Joe Slater 0

Based on a lyrical passage in The Oxford, Gloucester and Milford Haven Road, by Charles G Harper. Harper’s entire oeuvre of “Road” books has long been out of print, but no travel writer I know [more…]

Literature

Riding the donkou through Japan

4th February 2023 Joe Slater 0

  When you read about Japanese trains, the first thing that comes to mind is probably the shinkansen, the world’s first bullet train and still a wonder to behold and to ride in. Or you [more…]

20th Century

Memories of the first World Cup held in Asia: Final rounds

15th December 2022 Joe Slater 0

The Japan-Korea World Cup in 2002 was the first time the competition had been co-hosted. It was the first time it had been held in Asia, and the first time a country that had never [more…]

20th Century

Memories of the first World Cup held in Asia: Early rounds

8th December 2022 Joe Slater 0

The Japan-Korea World Cup in 2002 was the first time the competition had been co-hosted. It was the first time it had been held in Asia, and the first time a country that had never [more…]

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