The Rise and Fall and Rise Again of Masa Son
Indian telecom billionaire Sunal Mittal declared that “the man has balls of steel”
Three Devil Man in the Kobe Hotel
As for “three devils,” he did not deny the suggestion that it stood for womanizing, drinking and gambling.
Kaleidoscope Japan: A Nation Through the Lens of its Literature by Richard Nathan
he completed the race with a time of 54 years, 8 months, 6 days, 5 hours and 32 minutes, during which he had six children and ten grandchildren
Lesley Downer’s “The Shortest History of Japan”
Independence from China has been a national priority since at least the sixth century.
The Geopolitics of “Shōgun”
The show is an American product, but it feels half Japanese. Geopolitically, this makes sense since the U.S. is much more dependent on Japan than ever before.
The Geopolitics of Godzilla
China, Russia and North Korea could be considered three Godzillas, a large one, a medium-sized one and a small but vicious one.
New Perspectives on Kurosawa
His widow was shot as a Japanese spy after a trial that lasted 10 minutes and his daughter was sent to the gulag for 10 years
The Intelligent Ambiguity of Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer”
When a friend mentions an underground route for getting atomic secrets to Moscow, he responds “that would be treason”.
Ian Buruma’s “Collaborators”
And sometimes, there really are conspiracies — or at least crucial decisions taken far from the public eye
Chris Miller’s “Chip War”: the Geopolitics of High-tech
“Washington’s foreign policy strategists embraced complex semiconductor supply chains as a tool to bind Asia to an American-led world”