Articles Culture “Allez, Les Brave Blossoms”: Japan’s Special Sporting Footprint By Peter Tasker | September 16, 2023 | Comment (2) Share Planet Rugby is very different from the world of geopolitics. The United States is not a superpower but a minnow that failed to qualify for the World Cup
Books Culture Non-fiction Reflections Hans Sautter’s “Japan”: A Photographer’s Lifework By Peter Tasker | June 21, 2023 | Comment (0) Share The Sacred is there to balance the profane. We need them both.
Culture Reflections Burn On, Joe! A 1960s Manga Icon Lifts Spirits Today By Peter Tasker | February 20, 2021 | Comment (0) Share “Old man, I’m begging you… let me carry on… until there’s nothing left of me but white ashes,..”
Culture Reflections Shuji Terayama The Gambler Vs. The Bodybuilder: Shuji Terayama Meets Yukio Mishima By Peter Tasker | November 18, 2020 | Comment (0) Share Strangely enough, it is the approach of the iconoclastic Terayama that seems more in tune with traditional Japanese aesthetics
Shuji Terayama “Hey, America!”: Poem by Shuji Terayama (abridged) By Peter Tasker | October 31, 2020 | Comment (0) Share The America that killed my father in a sea-battle off New Guinea… the America of Kirk Douglas’ dimpled chin… of train robber Jesse James…
Culture Reflections Shuji Terayama Journey to Fear Mountain By Peter Tasker | May 5, 2020 | Comment (1) Share He sensed the presence of a dusty, crouching, terrible god who does not often show himself in this world.
Culture Reflections Shuji Terayama Michi the Questioner By Peter Tasker | January 21, 2020 | Comment (0) Share “What is your favourite way to be betrayed by somebody?”
Culture Reflections Shuji Terayama Postcards From Another Planet By Peter Tasker | November 18, 2019 | Comment (1) Share ”Even things that didn’t happen are part of history…”
Culture Reflections Shuji Terayama “Third” – Terayama’s last screenplay for somebody else By Peter Tasker | October 28, 2019 | Comment (0) Share A Japanese “Shawshank Redemption” was never on the cards.
Articles Culture My Haiku for the Rugby World Cup By Peter Tasker | October 18, 2019 | Comment (0) Share The word “rugby” has become one of the required “season words,” signifying winter.