My fascination with Japan continues with this new book by Mark West called: Lovesick Japan: Sex, Marriage, Romance, Law. The Economist covers this fascinating topic and some of the Japanese contradictions in this area here.
New York Times Modern Love column: Even in real life, there were screens between us
I’ve followed this NYTimes column with some fascination. There are a lot of aspiring and experienced writers with a diversity of views on relationships in these modern times.
This particular piece here was interesting because of its Internet topic and certainly almost everyone by now has had some kind of interaction with flirting on the Internet and the like. Can two people nurture and maintain a relationship behind a computer screen?