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Review: 'The Outsider' by Steve Kemme — Following Lafcadio Hearn, the travel writer who fused the world

The world saw Hearn as an illustrious recorder of Japanese life; the Japanese considered him a literary icon. But he was all that and more.

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The extraordinary – and haunting – life of Lafcadio Hearn

It’s a convoluted title for a book, but then Lafcadio Hearn – a widely travelled author and journalist who earned his greatest fame as an interpreter of Japanese horror stories – led a convoluted life. Born in 1850 from a difficult marriage between an Irish officer-surgeon and a wildly unpredictable noble-blooded Greek woman (his middle

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Beware the Kitsune, The Shapeshifting Fox of Japanese Folklore

Kitsune (狐狸精), the Japanese fox-spirit, is also known as the Kumiho (구미호) in Korea and the Huli Jing (狐狸精) in China. They are basically the same creature but with a few differences based on region.

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Lafcadio Hearn becomes Koizumi Yakumo in 1890s Japan

Lafcadio Hearn becomes Koizumi Yakumo in 1890s Japan
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Japanese Letters of Lafcadio Hearn

Japanese Letters of Lafcadio Hearn
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