Can Biden Do What Ikeda Did? How Japan Ended An Era of Destructive Polarisation
Japan today may seem like a placid, consensus-driven society, but it too has a history of political violence and bitter division.
Peering into 2021: Tanjiro Kamado Battles Big Tech
In the year of the coronavirus, one sixth of the entire Japanese population went to the cinema to watch Demon Slayer,
Moby BoJ: How the Bank of Japan Can Exit its ETF Trap
It would end up owning enough of the Japanese economy to gladden the heart of Karl Marx
Japan Can Capitalize Strategically On Its (Relative) Covid Success
Not even the government itself ascribes the outcome to brilliant policy making
Mishima in the Twenty First Century
Can you imagine best-selling novelist Haruki Murakami leading a coup attempt against Japanese Prime Minister Suga?
The Return of Yukio Mishima
“It’s not an accident that Don Quixote encounters strange things,” he mused. “It’s caused by his personality… I’m a Don Quixote.”
The Gambler Vs. The Bodybuilder: Shuji Terayama Meets Yukio Mishima
Strangely enough, it is the approach of the iconoclastic Terayama that seems more in tune with traditional Japanese aesthetics
Sayonara, Bondo-san: Sean Connery’s Japan
Bond doesn’t go the full Lafcadio Hearn, but he does “become Japanese”
Japan’s Joe Biden Problem
For them Japan will always be the guilty party and therefore the one that must make concessions.
Harvey Weinstein Dates Princess Mononoke: How Studio Ghibli Went Global
“Why is the Deer God a god? Is that a Japanese thing? Is he a good god or a bad god?”