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.”
Bagism, Dragism, Madism: Terayama, Yoko Ono and The Beatles Part 3
Yoko put on displays of “bagism” – the practice of writhing around in a giant bag – with her second husband, Tony Cox, on the roof of their apartment in Shibuya.
Smoke Your Pubes: Terayama, Yoko Ono and The Beatles 2
Yoko Ono was a trailblazer in the art of self-construction. Her profession has always been “being Yoko Ono.”
P***ing in the Churchyard: Terayama, Yoko Ono and The Beatles
Mishima spent much of the time examining the hysterical response of young women in the audience, which he found mystifying.
Virus Diary: Science Fiction
With the world having seemingly entered an alternate reality thanks to Covid-19, Dick’s dystopian vision seems particularly salient.
Samsung’s Cosmic Self – How a Korean Company Beat the Japanese at Their Own Game
“F**k Steve. He’s dead and we were right. Samsung was right.”
Japan’s Pandemic Paradox: From Spanish Flu to Covid-19
The Japanese showed themselves far more alert to the dangers of droplet infection than Europeans in 1918.
Virus Diary: Uses and Abuses of a Pandemic
One industry was in terminal decline before the corona crisis arrived, but subsequently made a miraculous recovery: the mass media
Empire of Masks: the World Turns Japanese Again
“The best-known mask-wearer was the late Michael Jackson, identifying the practice with eccentric hypochondria.”