Rise of the Robocats: How Labour Shortages Will Change Japan
In order to attract staff companies will have to offer child-care facilities, subsidized gym memberships and a better work-life balance.
British House / Japanese House: We’re All Rabbits Now
A cross between a medieval hermit and a Parisian flâneur, he has apparently never left Tokyo
James Bond’s Secret Mission: To Revive the Anglo-Japanese Alliance
James Bond’s half-Japanese son or daughter would be in the prime of life today.
The Multi-talented Mr. Aquirax
His blend of Aubrey Beardsley-like eroticism with sixties psychedelia helped to establish the underground ambience…
In Praise of Inauthenticity: Ghost in the Shell
In Japan, which has made cultural appropriation a national strategy for the last 150 years, such thinking makes no sense
The Year of Scandal: How the Fate of Abe and Park Affect Regional Security
With her distrust of nuclear power and support for medical marijuana, Akie Abe constituted an “intra-family opposition party.”
The Brightening Message from Small Cap Japan
In the creative destruction that is supposed to characterize capitalism, destruction is always noisier and more eye-catching than creation
Assassin’s Creed: North Korea at the Brink
The lesson the North Koreans have learned is that bluster, brutality and blackmail make for a winning strategy.
North Korean Assassination: The Novel!
“Through the seething jungles of Mindanao, across the baking emptiness of Mongolia and into the Dear Leader’s personal pleasure dome.”
Trump and Abe on the Fairway to Heaven
Abe was treated to hugs, multiple dinner dates and a sleepover at Trump’s luxury resort in Florida. The round of golf the two men played there was highly symbolic,