Personal Landscapes

Ryan Murdock

Ryan Murdock talks with the world’s most original writers, publishers and travelers to get the story behind great books about place. www.personallandscapespodcast.com

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Personal Landscapes

Episodes (76)

Tue May 19th Tom Feiling on Japan’s warning for the future
Tue May 5th Katja Hoyer on life at the edge of catastrophe
Apr 20th Nicholas Crane on the hidden history of Britain's paths

Personal Landscapes

May 19, 2026
1 hours
65 MB

When Tom Feiling lived in Tokyo in the early 1990s, Japan was a vision of the future. A place where science fiction existed next to centuries old Shinto shrines. He returned to the country nearly twenty-five years later to find some of the shine had worn off. Its population is aging and shrinking. Inflation is finally setting in after decades of economic stagnation. People are choosing solitude over companionship. And countryside villages are being abandoned as their last residents die off. Japan still looks like the future, but it is a troubling future...

Personal Landscapes

Tom Feiling on Japan’s warning for the future

Ryan Murdock

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