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Reviewed on February 15, 2018 | Social Sciences
By his own admission, Buruma longed from childhood to escape the dull security of his middle-class upbringing in Holland. Drawn to Japan by a chance encounter with the plays of poet and filmmaker Shuji Terayama, Buruma decamped to Tokyo in 1975, where he studied cinema and photography and formed connections with people such as author and film critic Donald Richie and avant-ga...Log In or Sign Up to Read More