Yohei Kotsuji's "A Foggy Paradise," which premiered at Japan's biggest film festival, is an...

Miruka Adachi
Miruka Adachi is a staff writer and editor for JAPAN Forward.
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Japanese translator Miruka Adachi, who was raised in Hong Kong and calls the city...