I occasionally filch URLs from from http://www.aldaily.com http://www.aldaily.com, which was the case with this one. Their tag was: "The Japanese literary scen

I occasionally filch URLs from from http://www.aldaily.com http://www.aldaily.com, which was the case with this one. Their tag was: "The Japanese literary scene is plagued by rehashed American literature. Contemporary novelists are “brainless writers of crap.” Exhibit A: Haruki Murakami..." (I modestly used as a title the last sentence of this bit: "Mizumura discusses the problem in a broad cosmopolitan context, warning the world not only of the impending fall of Japanese but the likely fall of all national languages in the age of English and the internet. Japanese is just the canary in the coal mine." but the inexorable "original article title" HN policy eventually prevailed ;-)