The stories collected here were written over the past seven years for a monthly Japan Times column called The Living Past.
Each story invites the reader to th.
Column and book both were born of the conviction that the past, as the inrushing future engulfs it, is worth preserving - not only preserving but participating in, living in.
It never runs out of stories to tell.
The living past is inexhaustible.
The column still runs.
They range from earliest preHistory to modern times.
The stories collected here were written over the past seven years for a monthly Japan Times column called The Living Past