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The Boundary of Care
A Life That Opens a Larger Question A video about the life of Elliot Page left me with a question that reached beyond the story of a famous actor. Public accounts of…
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Before We Have to Prove Ourselves
The Child Behind the Achievement A Mainichi newspaper story about a fourth-grade girl passing Eiken Grade 1 invites an immediate response: admiration. Eiken is a standardized English proficiency examination widely used in…
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The Vanishing Application
A Card Stops, and the Tools Become Visible My credit card was temporarily restricted after the issuer identified a transaction that required verification. It was a routine security precaution, the kind of…
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Tom Yonashiro is a writer with a background in philosophy, religion, technology, and cybersecurity marketing. He writes to translate life’s complexities into meaning.