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Description: AIWA TO ZEN, 2003nA Short FilmnDuration: 11 minutes, 30 secondsnnDuring my first visit to Japan in 2002, I wrote down every Japanese word that I had known before visiting Japan. The thin vocabulary of about 150 words that I managed to scrape together had to do almost exclusively with an exotic and imaginary Japan, or a consumable Japan... with eating Japanese food, Japan at war, Japanese pop culture, the Japanese art and fashion worlds, and, overwhelmingly, with dozens of Japanese brand names. I
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