Modern Japanese

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    As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy.... Translation is very much like copying paintings.
    Boris Pasternak (1890–1960)

    I will be all things to you. Father, mother, husband, counselor, Japanese bartender.
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