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  • Fear and Loathing in Kyoto. A Journey to the City Under Siege

    Fear and Loathing in Kyoto. A Journey to the City Under Siege

    There’s a sickness spreading across the globe, a plague of loud shorts and cheap beer, and it seems to have found its latest patient in the sacred heart of Japan. I’ve seen what my kind—the sunburned hordes from the West, the Aussies, the Yanks, the Brits—did to Bali. They descended like locusts, turning a spiritual…