The Summertime Blues: Can Tokyo Find a Cure by 2020?
Carousing in Roppongi or Ginza would not be the same in daylight.
Sunset on the Lake of Lion’s Tears: Terayama and Shinoda in the Early 60s Part 2
All is resolved somehow and the goat goes back to the wide open pastures of Hokkaido.
Hail the Hated Heroes of Sport!
They are different from the rest of us, not just in skill, but in self-confidence, single-mindedness and the ability to handle pressure.
Sunset on the Lake of Lion’s Tears: Terayama and Shinoda in the Early 60s
Our hero is disengaged, transgressive and filled with a restless energy that makes him dangerous – rather like his creator
Buraikan: Sex and Booze and Samisen
Imagine that the counter-culture of the late 1960s was transposed to the last decades of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
When will an Asian Country Win the World Cup?
By prioritizing football, China may have found a weakness in American soft power that it can exploit
Aum & Japan: 23 Years On
Highly educated people often lack a grounding in reality and are suckers for the certainty of cult-like intellectual systems
From Beijing to Bicester: Surviving the Era of “Overtourism”
Nobody is going to complain about the tourists because there is nobody around but tourists.
Review: Ryoma!
A rebel, a pragmatist, a patriot, a red-blooded hombre who gulps down saké like tea, yet also embraces his feminine side; within him “radiates a being like the goddess Kannon”
Isle of Dodgy Stereotypes: Hollywood’s Japan Problem
We have met these dogs before and we like them. They are funny, brave and trustworthy. They are, effectively, Americans.