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The Japanese have an expression for human relations that are sticky with the mutual obligations and dependencies of the collective life. They use the English word wet. Traditional Japanese family relations are wet. Yakuza gangs are wet. Behavior that is more detached, more individualistic, often associated with a Western way of life, is dry. Terayama Shuji was dry. Kara was most definitely wet.

Ian Buruma

The Japanese have an expression for human relations that are sticky with the mutual obligations and dependencies of the collective life. They use the English word wet. Traditional Japanese family relations are wet. Yakuza gangs are wet. Behavior that is more detached, more individualistic, often associated with a Western way of life, is dry. Terayama Shuji was dry. Kara was most definitely wet.

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