‘It was like trying to go back to before the earthquake, to before knowledge.’
After the long flight across the Pacific, after the night in the tiny hotel room selected so that I could walk to the world’s busiest train station in the morning, after the train north to the area most impacted by the tsunami in the Great Tōhoku earthquake of 11 March 2011, after the meetings am…
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Mary Wellesley on exercise, ritual and Barry’s Bootcamp.
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