Abe and the Historians
Koizumi enacted a Japanese equivalent of the “Willy Brandt moment” at the Marco Polo bridge
Will Japan Become the Britain of Asia?
76% of Japanese and 66% of Americans believe that Japan does not need to apologize any further for its actions.
The Japanese Spring
Most important of all for psychological well-being and social tranquility, the Japanese economy is running at full employment.
Get Ready for the Asian History Games
British Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm riposted “We cannot invent our facts. Either Elvis Presley is dead or he isn’t.”
Tomorrow’s Joe
The Japanese Red Army militants who hi-jacked a JAL plane to Pyongyang in 1970 claimed “we are Tomorrow’s Joe.” The survivors remain in Pyongyang today and are now on Twitter.
Who’s Banking on China?
Japan now finds itself in a deeply uncomfortable position… As Hamlet might have put it, to join or not to join, that is the question.
The Seagull Laughs
The “Queen of the Japanese Underground” stuck to her unique personal style – long black dress, dark glasses, cloud of cigarette smoke
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
By then she had jettisoned her hippy chanteuse persona and joined Blues Creation, featuring Japan’s answer to Jeff Beck, Kazuo Takeda on guitar.
What Can Abe Teach Europe?
This goes a long way to explaining the remarkable fall in the suicide rate over the past several years, which has reversed nearly all of the sharp increase of the late 1990s.
The Sumo Champ in the Bath
Japanese bureaucracies, like others elsewhere, react to the prospect of transparency like a vampire reacts to the coming of daylight.