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My New Book is Here

For fans of horror and suspense

2 min readMay 27, 2024

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About Me Stories

About Me — Shawn Swinger

Here’s Me, Condensed into Paragraph Form

2 min readOct 2, 2023

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Inside the World of Japan’s Secretive Hostess Clubs

What Motivates the Girls Who Work There?

6 min readSep 13, 2023

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A Yakuza-linked Hostess Club Owner Takes me on a Man Date

8 min readJul 10, 2023

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That Time I Was Blackmailed in Japan

Car crashes, yakuza wannabes and surly police

10 min readJun 14, 2023

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Battling Nature in the Japanese Countryside: Takenoko

Bamboo: the most relentless of adversaries

4 min read4 days ago

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My Disastrous Dating Life in Japan

Episode one: A crash course in culture clash

5 min readMay 23, 2024

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A man stands like an action hero in front of a fire that has broken out in the bar while his date screams

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I Partied with Gods and Monsters in Kyoto

The annual 100-demon march

4 min readMay 2, 2024

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Japan is Not Your Candyland

Over-tourism and its fallout

5 min readApr 30, 2024

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Mount Fuji in the background, red Japanese shrine in the foreground.

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Enjoy the Moment by Getting Naked with Strangers in Japan

The semi-spiritual joy of onsen

5 min readApr 3, 2024

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Shawn B. Swinger

Shawn B. Swinger

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History teacher (MSc), write about life in Japan and other Asian nations. Also on Substack https://shawnswinger.substack.com/

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