For those that are unfamiliar, Alain De Botton is a New York Times best selling author of works such as "How Proust Can Change Your Life" and probably the best known philosopher of a movement of philosophers that are attempting to make Philosophy (capital P) relevant to real life without sacrificing intellectual astuteness.

Here, Botton, is exploring what seems to be Dutch village... except for one thing... it is in Japan.


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