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Susan Karen Burton
@drskburton.bsky.social
Historian, writer, Japanophile
Lovely piece from fellow @parthianbooks.bsky.social author Eluned Gramich on our recent cultural trip to Osaka where she lived up to her name and brought much-needed rain to the city.

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Postcard from Osaka
Eluned Gramich’s postcard is addressed to her five-year-old daughter, Angharad. It’s a strange coincidence that while I’m in Osaka, you’ll be dressing up in Japanese costume for Diwrnod Rhyngwladol (I...
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October 23, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Lord Gregory Mostyn, a frequent visitor to Japan and fluent Japanese speaker, kindly wrote the foreword to my book, 'The Transplantable Roots of Catharine Huws Nagashima: Encounters with the Welsh in Japan'. Thanks, Greg! @parthianbooks.bsky.social

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Meet me at Shibuya Station
Lord Gregory Mostyn  One day in 2015, we were tidying up the library in Mostyn Hall when I was astounded to come across an old, dusty photo album. It looked as if it had been almost hidden, and yet by...
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October 21, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Reposted by Susan Karen Burton
On the journey they were beaten, tortured and shackled beneath a waste pipe. The ship had dropped anchor in the middle of the bay of Hirado, a thriving trading post in the west of Japan, north of Nagasaki...

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The first Welchman in Japan
Susan Karen Burton In the summer of 1619, three sailors lay chained in the hold of Dutch sailing ship, The Angell. Captured in a sea battle between the Dutch and the English off the coast of Java, the...
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October 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
This Sunday - all welcome! @parthianbooks.bsky.social #wales #japan
September 30, 2025 at 6:24 PM
2025 is the year of #walesandjapan and last week, DJ and podcaster Yuko Nakauchi taught a Japanese lesson at Wrexham eisteddfod where my book 'The Transplantable Roots of Catharine Huws Nagashima: Encounters with the Welsh in Japan' by @parthianbooks.bsky.social was on the shelves at the bookshop.
August 10, 2025 at 12:56 PM
June 5, 2025 at 8:19 PM
A worrying article. I love the bitter taste of matcha in all its forms, particularly: matcha Kitkats, matcha lattes, and matcha donuts with coconut glaze. #japan #matcha www.theguardian.com/food/2025/ap...
‘Skyrocketing’ demand for matcha raises fears of shortage in Japan
Fuelled by social media, a global boom is outstripping production of the powdered green tea
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April 6, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Out June 2025
March 17, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Looks like the party has moved over to Bluesky so here I am. Will continue to post on X awhile as many of my Japanese friends are on there.
March 17, 2025 at 1:47 PM