For more than a decade, The Pasatiempo Writing Contest has published outstanding literary works from a variety of genres.

Some of these aged worse than milk on a boiling hot summer day, while some were straight-up dumpster mold from the start.

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Newly elected leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party Sanae Takaichi, center, is seen at a party executive meeting at LDP headquarters in Tokyo on Oct. 7, 2025. To the left of Takaichi is ...