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Matt Alt
Translator, Writer, and Speaker, Tokyo
Matt Alt is a Tokyo-based translator, writer, and speaker. He is the author of Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World (2020). His newsletter can be found at https://blog.pureinventionbook.com/.
Written by Matt Alt
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The joy of clutter
The world sees Japan as a paragon of minimalism. But its hidden clutter culture shows that ‘more’ can be as magical as ‘less’
Matt Alt
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The great regression
To understand why so many adults are acting just like children, don’t blame Millennials – look to Japan in the 1990s
Matt Alt