My current read:
"Rather, he [Dazai] sensed an absurdity in Tsugaru's inferiority complex vis-a-vis modernisation and civilisation and its longing for being part of the majority of the "motherland" or the "old Japan".
Hidemichi Kawanishi, "The Transformation of Tsugaru Identity"
After a whole semester of comparing "central" and "periphery", reading on "nationalism" and "regionalism", I think I am only just starting to understand all these terms.
I feel almost akin to Tsugaru, though in a different dimension.
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