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A suffusion of cute: Nara deer

Kawaii – cuteness – is a religion here. The rest of the world frowns on cartoons, sniffs at toys, and sneers at all things doey-eyed and fluffy. But in Japan, the cuteness levels accepted...

Nagasaki

We’d thought Japan would be good. We were wrong: it’s fabulous. China was still very fresh in our memory when we boarded the Japanese ferry in Busan – and realised that suddenly, everything was...