Warning from Japan: Deep Recessions Cost Lives Too
Japan emerged from its “lost decades” with its social capital intact. Many Western societies would find that a near-impossibility.
Virus Diary: The Pangolin Smiles
Taking your political opinions from musicians is about as sensible as taking your musical opinions from politicians.
Japan After the Virus: From Abenomics to Coronanomics
Everyone will live in its shadow, knowing that there could be a repeat any time.
Alan Merrill’s Japan: a Magical Moment
The management takes the money. The musicians get peanuts, if they’re lucky.
Cherry Blossom Viewing in the Year of the Virus
In times of peril, the nation-state is all you’ve got.
The Whirr of Helicopter Blades: Regime Change is Coming
Economic crises kill people too.
The Virus Shock: Cut Taxes Now to Save Abenomics!
Bond markets are imploring governments to issue more bonds – in other words, to borrow more money.
Going Global: Parasite Vs. Winnie the Pooh
Winnie the Pooh, like Richard Gere, has been cancelled in China.
Review: The Chronicles of Lord Asanaro
His only achievement was begetting seventy children, the result of his insatiable pursuit of “horizontal pleasures.”
Michi the Questioner
“What is your favourite way to be betrayed by somebody?”