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Japan
Trevor’s book The Story of Sushi contains surprising revelations about the history and culture of Japanese food, but less apparent is Trevor’s other deep interest in Japan, which has little to do with food.
Trevor never completed his graduate degree—he gave it up to go catch lobsters in Maine—but he’s still hoarding reams of notes and writings on Japanese Buddhism that he hopes to return to someday. In the meantime, he writes frequently on Japan and continues to visit the country.
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Selected Writings on Japan
by Trevor Corson
Eating sushi can be a recipe for disaster. Especially if you don’t know what you’re doing.
Princeton Alumni Weekly, February 3, 2010
Limp seaweed, moldy fish shavings, and rotting soybeans. The result? Yum—Mother Nature’s MSG.
Serious Eats, September 17, 2008

Transition Magazine, Fall 2000
Japan’s most famous Buddhist was a political mastermind who created a secret arsenal of magic spells to heal disease, end drought, vanquish enemies—and make himself the right-hand man to the emperor.
Kyoto Journal, July 2000

Atlantic Online, March 17, 1999
It is a magic moment when a Westerner confronts a kanji—one of the convoluted characters used in the Japanese writing system—and makes it his own.
Yokohama Echo, September 1, 1993