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n Japan, where I’ve made my home for thirty-three years, it’s not uncommon to see people bowing to a telephone as they speak into a receiver. Ceremonies are held in temples every year for sewing needles that have given themselves up to make a kimono. My Kyoto-born wife was taught to apologize to a table if she kicked it in a fit of six-year-old pique. We can bring the same—