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Many of us know that Japan took its Buddhism, its urban design, its flower-viewing rites and several of its art forms from China, often by way of Korea. You feel that influence today everywhere from ...

Walt Disney has led us to humanize animals ... but that may mean we are misinterpreting the natural world, warns columnist ...