Culture Reflections Reviews Kaleidoscope Japan: A Nation Through the Lens of its Literature by Richard Nathan By Peter Tasker | October 5, 2024 | Comment (1) Share 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
Culture Politics The Provocateur: Reconsidering Shintaro Ishihara By Peter Tasker | May 13, 2022 | Comment (0) Share Ishihara helped to mould the era, and the era helped to mould him
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,..”
Articles Culture Mishima in the Twenty First Century By Peter Tasker | November 26, 2020 | Comment (0) Share Can you imagine best-selling novelist Haruki Murakami leading a coup attempt against Japanese Prime Minister Suga?
Articles Culture The Return of Yukio Mishima By Peter Tasker | November 22, 2020 | Comment (2) Share “It’s not an accident that Don Quixote encounters strange things,” he mused. “It’s caused by his personality… I’m a Don Quixote.”
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
Culture Reflections Shuji Terayama P***ing in the Churchyard: Terayama, Yoko Ono and The Beatles By Peter Tasker | June 6, 2020 | Comment (0) Share Mishima spent much of the time examining the hysterical response of young women in the audience, which he found mystifying.
Culture Non-fiction New Book: “On Kurosawa – A Tribute to the Master Director” By Peter Tasker | April 14, 2019 | Comment (0) Share My latest book “On Kurosawa – A Tribute to the Master Director” explores AK’s work and life
Articles Culture We’d Love to Change Your Head: Japan’s Beatlemanic Moment By Peter Tasker | June 23, 2016 | Comment (2) Share Into this maelstrom came The Beatles, the biggest act on the planet and symbol of youthful hedonism
Culture Reflections R.I.P. Bowie: “Like some cat from Japan…” By Peter Tasker | January 12, 2016 | Comment (1) Share David Bowie and Yukio Mishima both staged their own deaths as pieces of performance art.