Arianna gets
a chopstick
lesson at
the Kappo
Sakatmoto
restaurant
in Kyoto.
Tokyo —
Konnichiwa!
Greetings from Japan, where I’ve been for nearly a
week leading up to Tuesday’s launch of our latest
international edition, HuffPost Japan.
Japan is an amazing place — almost overwhelming in how singular and beautiful it is. And we
are fortunate to be launching HuffPost here at a
remarkable time. This is a time of big transitions.
Japan’s spirit is being tested by the same recession and financial crisis afflicting all industrialized nations. But some of the solutions to these
new and unprecedented difficulties might well
turn out to be found in the most ancient Japanese
traditions. Some here are finding that, to go forward, they must go inward.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY DAVID FLUMENBAUM