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Merry White on Japan's long-standing coffee culture

Published: June 2, 2019, 7 p.m.

Cafes offer up this unique third space - not home, nor work - for people to be private in a public space. Merry White, professor of Anthropology at Boston University, studies just this: cafes and cafe culture, but in Japan. Her book, Coffee Life in Japan, \u201cpart ethnography, part memoir\u201d, traces Japan\u2019s cafe\u2019s society over the past century and a half.