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Embers
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There was a section of the train journey on the Tobu-Matsuki Line, roughly halfway to Tokyo, a little over an hour’s journey in either direction, where he always felt lonely. Looking around him now he got the impression that it wasn’t something which only affected him. Faces paused, on the verge of emotion, mouths slightly open at a sudden pain inserting itself, eyes glazing In post-millennial Japan an innocent faith in the collective good, in continuity, is being replaced by cynicism, sexual curiosity, and a crumbling of social foundations. For a group of high school students and their teachers, for Sayaka, battling illness, and Koji, struggling through loss, it is a test of tra...
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