Articles Culture Mishima in the Twenty First Century By Peter Tasker | November 26, 2020 | Comment (0) Share Can you imagine best-selling novelist Haruki Murakami leading a coup attempt against Japanese Prime Minister Suga?
Articles Culture The Return of Yukio Mishima By Peter Tasker | November 22, 2020 | Comment (2) Share “It’s not an accident that Don Quixote encounters strange things,” he mused. “It’s caused by his personality… I’m a Don Quixote.”
Culture Reflections Shuji Terayama The Gambler Vs. The Bodybuilder: Shuji Terayama Meets Yukio Mishima By Peter Tasker | November 18, 2020 | Comment (0) Share Strangely enough, it is the approach of the iconoclastic Terayama that seems more in tune with traditional Japanese aesthetics
Reflections “My Heart Sutra”, by Frederik L. Schodt By Peter Tasker | November 15, 2020 | Comment (1) Share A version by a guitar-strumming Zen priest has been viewed nearly 2 million times…
Culture Sayonara, Bondo-san: Sean Connery’s Japan By Peter Tasker | November 8, 2020 | Comment (0) Share Bond doesn’t go the full Lafcadio Hearn, but he does “become Japanese”