Virus Diary: Albert’s Blues
One thing is for sure – you don’t want to piss him off.
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.”