“One Love Chigusa”: Soji Shimada’s Homage to Tezuka
Women with mechanical bodies that display monetary amounts scrolling up and down. Men with transparent mouths stretching from ear to ear.
At Last: Buffett Validates Abe’s Legacy
Abe’s project of resurrecting Japan as a confident, independent geopolitical player would never succeed without economic revival
The Ghost of Kurosawa: A Samurai Videogame Channels History
“The Ghost of Tsushima” does provide moral dilemmas and intriguing back-stories for the characters.
The Abe Legacy: How Japan Got Its Mojo Back
Abe understands the dictum of novelist Giuseppe di Lampedusa – “for things to remain the same, everything must change.”
The Triumph of Imagining: Terayama, Yoko Ono and The Beatles Pt. 4
When reality collapses, imaginary worlds suddenly seem more dependable.
Top 10 Olympic Movies: From Clint Eastwood to Chris Marker
Plenty of Olympic-themed films, ranging from warm-hearted comedies to tense thrillers and dark human dramas.
Anti-fragile Corporate Japan
The majority of the world’s oldest companies – 56% of those over 200 years old – are to be found in Japan.
The Geopolitics of Travel Bubbles
The highlight was receiving an illicit cup of coffee
Hong Kong Crackdown: Implications for Japan
If Hong Kong ceases to exist in the form that has become familiar over the past forty years, what will replace it?
The World Won’t Turn Japanese for Long: Inflation Is Coming
The last few weeks have seen more civil disorder in the United States and the UK than Japan experienced in two “lost decades.”