Culture
Dazai in Britain, and a Compliment About Japanese Women
The Guardian reported that Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human has sold more than 75,000 copies in Britain, with young readers arriving through TikTok and the anime Bungo Stray Dogs. On the same day, a foreign man's Spanish-language post praising a Japanese swimsuit shoot for having no tattoos, no overweight women and no cosmetic surgery spread through the threads. The Dazai story drew biography and reading lists; the compliment drew corrections.