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Eric Dion Margolis

Nagoya-shi, Tokyo
As seen in: The New York Times, Slate, Vox, The Japan Times, The New Republic, Tokyo Weekender, Metropolis Magazine (Japan), Unseen Japan
Journalist/book editor/translator. Edits Usotoki Rhetoric, Captain Corinth, more. Culture and climate. Japan Times, Vox, Slate. One of the socialist Jews.

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Eric Dion Margolis’s Biography

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I cover climate change, literature, and Japanese news and culture. Bylines at the New York Times, the Japan Times, Slate, Vox, Metropolis Magazine, Times of Israel, Eclectica Magazine, and more.

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Museums in Japan adjust to life after COVID-19

Museums in Japan adjust to life after COVID-19

Foreign and domestic tourists are venturing out again only to find that Japan's cultural landscape has change…

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Shinzo Abe's Assassination Will Haunt Japan for Years

Shinzo Abe's Assassination Will Haunt Japan for Years

You almost never hear them in Japan-gunshots. But at around 11:30 a.m. on Friday, two rang out in the central…

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Pottery, Galleries and Café Culture in Tokoname | Tokyo Weekender

Pottery, Galleries and Café Culture in Tokoname | Tokyo Weekender

Airplanes arrive on the sea, on the brink of the Chita Peninsula, a backwards J curling south from Nagoya. An…

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An Afghan in Japan's plea to the world

An Afghan in Japan's plea to the world

Before Japan's borders closed over fears of the omicron variant last week, it was reported the country had le…

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What temples and shrines mean to an outsider

What temples and shrines mean to an outsider

Wakayama Prefecture doesn't just feel like a spiritual place, it is spiritual. On its northern borders are ho…

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The World's Manga Love Affair Is Just Beginning

The World's Manga Love Affair Is Just Beginning

The era of mainstream manga has already arrived in the U.S. in full force. Popular titles, old and new, high-…

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Cracking the code of Japanese literature one kanji at a time

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By Eric Dion Margolis
| The Japan Times Verified
Reading Japanese literature in the original isn’t your average walk in the park. Research shows that literature contains a higher frequency of diverse and rare kanji than any other genre. In my own experience, the 漢字 (kanji, Chinese characters) and 単語 (tango, vocabulary) pose the greatest challenges. There are so many that it feels like I’ll never learn them all. A few unfamiliar words clustered together can leave me helplessly lost at sea. What to do then?
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Japan’s booming tourism industry struggling to improve sustainability

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By Eric Dion Margolis
| The Japan Times Verified
Finding harmony with nature in the pearlescent waters of Oku-Matsushima’s oyster farms. Tucking into dishes made with unique alpine vegetables in the sacred hills of Dewa Sanzan. Forest bathing, imbibing in local sake and relaxing in wood-fired saunas nestled in Okutama’s lush mountains. This is just a sampling of recent promotions for ecotourism destinations in Japan as destinations jostle to grab the attention of an annual influx of 40 million foreign visitors.
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How to get a start in reading books in Japanese

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By Eric Dion Margolis
| The Japan Times Verified
You’ve learned hiragana, you know some kanji, you can follow a conversation in Japanese. Now you want to read a 本 (hon, book) — but what kind of 本 should you pick up? The good news is that there are plenty of options for language learners. 日本文学が盛り上がっている (Nihon bungaku ga moriagatte-iru, Japanese literature is flourishing). And that’s not just from the perspective of Japanese books in English translation.
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What does it mean to be a journalist?

To tell great, true stories.

How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?

I need to know the 'why now.'

What's your favorite social network?

Twitter and I have a love-hate relationship.