Hail, King Kazu: an Iconic Footballer Ages with Passion and Style
He travelled alone to Brazil at the tender age of 15… finally becoming a first-team choice for Santos, home of the immortal Pele.
Video Letter: Terayama / Tanikawa
In the early 1980s, home video was in its infancy… the result is a punky, DIY aesthetic that manages to be both simple and moving
Back from the Dead: the Rebirth of Japanese Stocks
These days Japan looks more like a model case in the management of an ageing, mature society
Game On: Japanese Cuisine Goes Wild
it specializes in gibier (game) meat, but presented in a Japanese rather than French format. You cook the meat on a charcoal-fired griddle.
Arigato, Trump-san: Japan’s Wake-up Call
The end of American exceptionalism means the end of Japanese exceptionalism too. Constitutional reform is just the first step…
Review: Asia’s Reckoning
“If the Japanese had committed such an act, it would be remembered as the prime atrocity of the war, dwarfing even the Nanjing massacre”
Abe’s Next Move: Stoking a Mini-Boom
A glance at the Japanese banking system – and indeed at any bank branch, with its ranks of paper-shufflers – shows how much room there is for improvement.
“Ah, the Wasteland” : New Terayama Film
Yang gives a moving performance as the stuttering, socially inept ex-barber with the ring-name of “Barikan” (“Clipper”).
Electoral Affinities: How Abe Could Win by Losing
Abe has got himself into a pickle by agreeing to a deeply unpopular hike in the consumption tax
The Asian Missile Crisis: the Message from Machiavelli
Even by the standards of the regime’s bellicose rhetoric, threats of outright genocide are extreme…