A shamisen performance by Seiki Keene, the adopted son of Japanologist Donald Keene, was held in Tokyo on Saturday. Seiki, 74 ...

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On one side of the table sits a Scottish lobster fisherman and an English PE teacher and across from them, two young girls ...

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