31 OCTOBER 1998, page 21

Land Of The Rising Elbow

Hugh Levinson on the favourite leisure activity of Japanese men — and increasingly of women THE PROFESSOR — an expert in medi- aeval Welsh literature — darted his chop- sticks......

Mind Your Language

MY HUSBAND goes into a sort of zombie state in shops at the best of times. This is not the best of times, it being practically Christmas Eve in shopping terms. The shops all......