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Sunday 26 August, 2012

Column: Homesickness – the emigrant’s burden

The whiff of a favourite foodstuff, the emotional low of feeling ill – these are just two of the catalysts to awaken homesickness when you’re an expat, says Irishman-in-Japan Mark Boyle.

Tuesday 3 July, 2012

Column: Yes, Ireland is special but fewer care than we think

We’ve done well for a small island nation, writes Mark Boyle from Japan, but we shouldn’t overstate our sense of exceptionalism: it doesn’t serve us well abroad.

Saturday 23 June, 2012

Column: How Japanese people interact with their state is the inverse of the Irish

Mark Boyle, an Irishman in Japan, says his home country and his adopted one have polar attitudes to government – and neither have been served well by their approach…