Secrets of the Abe Ascendancy
Prime Ministers came and went with such frequency that they were likened to karaoke singers taking turns at the microphone.
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.
How the Lehman Shock Helped Revive Japan
Paul Krugman declared “Japan used to be a cautionary tale, but the rest of us have messed up so badly that it almost looks like a role model”
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
No Love for Value: Markets at Extremes
“We believe we understand the past, which implies that the future should also be knowable. But in fact we understand the past less than we believe we do”
From Beijing to Bicester: Surviving the Era of “Overtourism”
Nobody is going to complain about the tourists because there is nobody around but tourists.