Word: distantlyâ
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Dates: during 1983-1983
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Everywhere in Japan, one senses an intricate serenity that comes to a people who know precisely what to expect from each other. But one also senses?occasionally, distantly???a disconcerted, vaguely frantic emotional vibration, a feeling of dislocation and alienation and incipient loss. The Japanese are almost obsessively aware of their problems; it is possible that they exaggerate them in order to execute a subtle kind of psychological evasion?the domestic concerns relieving them, implicitly, of larger international responsibilities...
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