Bopping and Bathing in Beppu
Ichiro has never left his hometown. He has his pick of the local females
Shinzo Abe’s Legacy Part 1: Normalizing Japan
The KCIA and Moon’s Unification Church were as ‘close as lips and teeth’, as the saying goes,
Herzog’s Onoda: The Twilight World
Crickets scream at the cosmos… A crocodile ate a countess…
Yakushima: Where I Met the God of the Forest
80% of Yakushima’s ancient cedars have been chopped down and converted into furniture and building materials
Laugh and Live: A Barbarian on Japan’s Art Island
“The guy went to beaches all over the world to take these photos, and they all look the same?”
The Politician: Reconsidering Shintaro Ishihara Part 3
They dive-bombed babies in prams and damaged diversity by outcompeting smaller birds
Inflation: The Japanese Exception
Inflation is the “monetary expression of distributional conflict”
The Hunter: Reconsidering Shintaro Ishihara Part 2
He doubted that Queen Elizabeth would apologize for the Opium Wars if she visited China
The Provocateur: Reconsidering Shintaro Ishihara
Ishihara helped to mould the era, and the era helped to mould him
Review: The Why, Where & When of Populism
On that score, Japan has better politicians than the UK, the US and France.