Articles Culture Reflections Shuji Terayama Three Women, Three Rear Windows By Peter Tasker | February 29, 2016 | Comment (1) Share She refused to repudiate the yakuza boss who had acted as a father-figure since her earliest days in show-biz.
Articles Politics Why No Trump-san? Japanese Lessons on Populism By Peter Tasker | February 23, 2016 | Comment (1) Share Japan is less liberal than most Western countries, but more democratic.
Articles Culture Reflections Shuji Terayama Rebelling Against Reality: Jodorowsky vs. Terayama By Peter Tasker | February 17, 2016 | Comment (0) Share Jodo’s father is a Stalin-worshipping sadist who insists his son bear the pain of tooth extraction without anaesthetic
Articles Culture Politics Democracy: Ask an Expert, or Maybe Not By Peter Tasker | February 16, 2016 | Comment (0) Share To adapt Bob Dylan, for both countries “the future is already a thing of the past.”
Articles Finance Beware The Psycho By Peter Tasker | February 12, 2016 | Comment (1) Share Back in 2002 Ben Bernanke recommended the deployment of “helicopter money” – meaning a broad-based tax cut financed by the central bank – as the best cure for deflation.