Kyoto and the hard part of soft power
Kyoto’s charisma is of mythic scale: The city is the ancient capital of Japan, but in our modern world it somehow stands for connoisseurship, simplicity, unadulterated craftsmanship and the glamor of tradition. It’s the kind of soft power few cities — and countries — possess.
The allure revealed itself in London recently in a wordless........
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