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My grandfather started climbing when he was in his high school mountaineering club. He was caught in an avalanche in 1950 ...
Vault Comics switches from publishing comics to publishing Japanese light novels from April 2025... or so it appears at least ...
We hear a lot of chatter in the business media about productivity these days—specifically how it could decline in the US.
Writer Hannah Kirshner first moved to Yamanaka Onsen to better understand its craft culture. Almost 10 years later, she’s ...