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(Paris 1880. Adolf Verloc, the son of a French father and an English mother, is a spy in the pay of the Imperial Russian government. Confident and successful, he is stunned when he is arrested by the French police. Verloc realises that he has been betrayed by his mistress, Marianne. He is...

Tagata Jinja is a Shinto shrine in Komaki just north of Nagoya, and as such is just one of many that can be found throughout Japan. It symbolizes the strong spatial and temporal linkage of the people to the community of Komaki, which until comparatively recently was a farming area. The Hounen...