Articles Business Samsung’s Cosmic Self – How a Korean Company Beat the Japanese at Their Own Game By Peter Tasker | May 30, 2020 | Comment (0) Share “F**k Steve. He’s dead and we were right. Samsung was right.”
Articles Culture Japan’s Pandemic Paradox: From Spanish Flu to Covid-19 By Peter Tasker | May 23, 2020 | Comment (0) Share The Japanese showed themselves far more alert to the dangers of droplet infection than Europeans in 1918.
Articles Culture Reflections Virus Diary: Uses and Abuses of a Pandemic By Peter Tasker | May 16, 2020 | Comment (0) Share One industry was in terminal decline before the corona crisis arrived, but subsequently made a miraculous recovery: the mass media
Articles Culture Empire of Masks: the World Turns Japanese Again By Peter Tasker | May 16, 2020 | Comment (1) Share “The best-known mask-wearer was the late Michael Jackson, identifying the practice with eccentric hypochondria.”
Culture Reflections Shuji Terayama Journey to Fear Mountain By Peter Tasker | May 5, 2020 | Comment (1) Share He sensed the presence of a dusty, crouching, terrible god who does not often show himself in this world.