6 Japanese concepts you need to know, according to Marie Kondo

6 Japanese concepts you need to know, according to Marie Kondo

People really like Japanese philosophy. If you ever see a list of “untranslatable words” or “beautiful words from around the world,” then you will notice how Japanese ideas are often overrepresented. Whenever I explore a Japanese concept on the Mini Philosophy social media pages — wabi–sabi, mono no aware, ikigai — they outperform almost everything else. Part of this, no doubt, is a kind of exoticism. For much of its history, Japan remained ethn…