Virus Diary: The Pangolin Smiles
Taking your political opinions from musicians is about as sensible as taking your musical opinions from politicians.
Alan Merrill’s Japan: a Magical Moment
The management takes the money. The musicians get peanuts, if they’re lucky.
Cherry Blossom Viewing in the Year of the Virus
In times of peril, the nation-state is all you’ve got.
The Whirr of Helicopter Blades: Regime Change is Coming
Economic crises kill people too.
Going Global: Parasite Vs. Winnie the Pooh
Winnie the Pooh, like Richard Gere, has been cancelled in China.
Michi the Questioner
“What is your favourite way to be betrayed by somebody?”
Giri / Haji: A New Kind of Anglo-Japanese Alliance
Everyone is in trouble. Everyone hurts. We are different. We are the same.
At Last – the Missing Arrow!
What went missing after the initial phase of Abenomics was the second arrow, fiscal stimulus.
Postcards From Another Planet
”Even things that didn’t happen are part of history…”
“Third” – Terayama’s last screenplay for somebody else
A Japanese “Shawshank Redemption” was never on the cards.