Wednesday July 16, 2008 at 16:42
Interesting NYT article on Buddhism’s decline in Japan. Even more interesting is that the lead photo appears—I’m serious—to have been taken in my mother-in-law’s house.
The father of the priest in the photo was famous for driving a Porsche (he used to hire the test track at the driving school behind the house to do so); aside from the occasional BMW almost everything on the road in Akita is domestically built. I’m not sure what his son drives (obviously it’s something modest when he’s out on business), but I have an outstanding invitation from him to go out for drinks sometime.
