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Country Gentleman: Omnivores
Homo sapiens evolved as omonivores, hunter-gatherers -- we ate roots, fruits, se…
(2020/4/2)
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Country Gentleman: King Coal
Once a year, usually on a gloomy winter's day, I sit down to watch the classic b…
(2020/2/6)
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Country Gentleman: 'On zoos and otters' (Part 2)
On a late summer evening I was riding my bicycle over an old stone bridge that c…
(2019/12/11)
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Country Gentleman: On zoos and otters
Since the age of five, when my mother first took me to London zoo, as a stopover…
(2019/11/6)
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Country Gentleman: 'Lost words'
A few years ago a Welsh friend gave me a beautifully illustrated book entitled "…
(2019/10/2)
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Country Gentleman: On eating bears
The first time I ever ate a bear was in the winter of 1960-1961 when I was on th…
(2019/9/4)
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Country Gentleman: A very special 'forest spirit'
In 1983 my younger brother Elwyn brought his wife, son and two daughters from En…
(2019/8/10)
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Country Gentleman: Man's best friend
As a boy growing up in Britain we always had dogs around, mostly working dogs. I…
(2019/3/10)
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Country Gentleman: Year of the boar
I came to Japan for the first time in October of 1962. In January of 1963 I visi…
(2019/1/9)
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Country Gentleman: Angels of hope
After the earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011, we invited people traumatize…
(2018/12/13)
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Country Gentleman: City snow, country snow
I arrived in Tokyo on the afternoon of Jan. 23. At Tokyo Station there were long…
(2018/2/21)
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Country Gentleman: Welcoming winter's meat delicacies
I am in my study, which is on the third floor of a building built about 100 mete…
(2018/1/25)
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Country Gentleman: Homegrown chestnuts a seasonal treat
One of the wonderful smells I remember as a boy in Britain back in the 1940s and…
(2017/12/21)
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Country Gentleman: Do clothes make the man?
I am preparing to make a trip to Greenland, where I shall board a medium-sized "…
(2017/9/5)
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Country Gentleman: What does it really mean to be a 'country gentleman'?
When I first came to Japan in 1962 and tried to understand the language, one of …
(2017/3/29)
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