Cover Photo: Photograph by Launde Morel/Unsplash
Photograph by Launde Morel/Unsplash

Summer in Tokyo: Rain Women, Cicadas, and Visits from the Dead

One reason I fell in love with Japan is the way each season is embraced and celebrated. Living here has changed my view of them—and of myself.

This is , a monthly column in which Ann Tashi Slater writes about culture, society, and day-to-day life in Japan.

Of course it’s hot—it’s summerting

plop-plopping

 (translated by Donald Keene)

Ann Tashi Slater's work  has been published by The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New York Times, Guernica, Tin House, AGNI, Granta, and the HuffPost, among others, and she's a contributing editor at Tricycle. She recently finished a memoir about reconnecting with her Tibetan roots. Visit her at: www.anntashislater.com.