Articles Culture Flowing into the Future: Tokyo by Water By Peter Tasker | April 24, 2023 | Comment (0) Share “It is all but forgotten today that Tokyo’s low city was once a city equal to Venice in its charms,”
Reflections Hiroshige Does Dylan By Peter Tasker | April 16, 2023 | Comment (0) Share Bob Dylan and girlfriend walk off the Freewheelin’ album cover and into a Hiroshige snow scene
Articles Culture Reflections Reviews Rock Gods in Japan: Who’s Appropriating Who? By Peter Tasker | November 12, 2022 | Comment (1) Share A famous number of theirs compares a girlfriend’s physical attributes to those of a high-performance sports car.
Articles Culture Reflections From Endo to Dylan: TV Ads Bridge the Cultural Divide By Peter Tasker | January 21, 2017 | Comment (0) Share Ground-breaking film director Nagisa Oshima, peddled cockroach-repellent and air-freshener.
Culture Reflections One More Cup of Saké for the Road: Dylan Translated and Transformed By Peter Tasker | May 15, 2016 | Comment (0) Share Borges favoured “happy and creative infidelity” and rejected the very concept of a definitive text.
Articles Culture Reflections Tangled Up In Tokyo: the Japanese Side of Bob Dylan By Peter Tasker | March 24, 2016 | Comment (1) Share In the late 1960s, there was a ramshackle coffee-shop called Dylan in Osaka’s Namba entertainment district which served as a meeting-place for musicians, hippies, theatre people and student radicals.
Articles Culture Politics Democracy: Ask an Expert, or Maybe Not By Peter Tasker | February 16, 2016 | Comment (0) Share To adapt Bob Dylan, for both countries “the future is already a thing of the past.”
Articles Culture Reflections Memories of Silk and Straw By Peter Tasker | July 12, 2015 | Comment (0) Share Infanticide and the sale of daughters into prostitution were necessary evils