“Allez, Les Brave Blossoms”: Japan’s Special Sporting Footprint
Planet Rugby is very different from the world of geopolitics. The United States is not a superpower but a minnow that failed to qualify for the World Cup
The Intelligent Ambiguity of Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer”
When a friend mentions an underground route for getting atomic secrets to Moscow, he responds “that would be treason”.
Ian Buruma’s “Collaborators”
And sometimes, there really are conspiracies — or at least crucial decisions taken far from the public eye
Chris Miller’s “Chip War”: the Geopolitics of High-tech
“Washington’s foreign policy strategists embraced complex semiconductor supply chains as a tool to bind Asia to an American-led world”
Learning to Love Inflation: the Japanese Experiment
Higher immigration is a certainty, given that opinion surveys show a large majority of the public accepting the case.
Buffett-san Validates the Abe Reforms
Could it be that Buffett sees a more cosmopolitan Japan filling a crucial new role?
An Excremental Film Review
We are a long way from the anality taboo that underpins much Freudian psychoanalysis.
Flowing into the Future: Tokyo by Water
“It is all but forgotten today that Tokyo’s low city was once a city equal to Venice in its charms,”
The Real Musical Magic of Ryuichi Sakamoto
Listening to the jazz-funk of Herbie Hancock’s Head Hunters band revolutionized his thinking about music
The Kuroda era – and what comes next
One thing is for sure – unlike most of his predecessors, he will be remembered.