"Andy Warhol politics"
The Pink Paper pretty much nailed the feeling, if not the reality, of what Gerald Curtis called a creative destruction era of Japanese poli....
3 Sep 1:34 pm  from  Unknown   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Japan Public Pension Fund to Sell $48 Billion in Assets to Pay Aging Nation
Japan’s public pension fund, the world’s largest, will sell about 4 trillion yen ($48 billion) in assets this fiscal ye....
3 Sep 12:40 pm  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 
What makes Ichiro run?
THOUGH HE’S BEEN one of the most dominant figures in Japanese politics for 20 years, people are still puzzled about the motivations of Oza....
2 Sep 1:53 pm  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
What makes Ichiro run?
THOUGH HE’S BEEN one of the most dominant figures in Japanese politics for 20 years, people are still puzzled about the motivations of Oza....
2 Sep 1:53 pm  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
The Legend of Koizumi
I was just given YouTube links to what may possibly be the most incredible videos I have ever seen. I realize that this is a claim that I o....
31 Aug 10:16 pm  from  Dark Mirage   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Japan’s obssesion with tuna – Does it mean loving it to extinction?
Japan is known as the biggest consumer of tuna. Be it raw for sushi or sashimi or fried, broiled or canned, tuna is an impo....
31 Aug 11:48 am  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Karen refugees to start resettling in Japan next month
Starting toward the end of September, a group of 27 Karen refugees will resettle in Japan. The refugees currently live in Thailand, par....
30 Aug 8:03 pm  from  Mutant Frog   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Mere happenstance
WHAT IS IT about Japanese politics that generates so many coincidences? No authoritative studies have been made, but chance occurrences rema....
30 Aug 12:40 pm  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
“Film shows Japan-U.S. security from artists’ viewpoints”
From today's Japan Today:A documentary film on Japan’s tumultuous postwar history since signing the 1960 security treaty with the United S....
30 Aug 9:17 am  from  Visual Anthropology of Japan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Maneuvering on a multicellular level
Photo troika The Democratic Party is essentially the same as the Liberal Democratic Party, so they’ll be tranquil when they put up with th....
28 Aug 1:20 pm  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Rare tour of gallows to spur debate in Japan
Japan opened up the secretive world of its capital punishment system to the public Friday, offering journalists a rare tour....
28 Aug 3:40 am  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Ichiro Ozawa: Americans Are “Simple-Minded”
Ichiro Ozawa, the shady “Shadow Shogun” who controls a significant part of Japan’s ruling party, has said some not-so-kind things abo....
27 Aug 8:31 am  from  Japan Probe   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Japan’s latest political ephemeron
Prime Minister Kan should cut his belly and apologize, not only to the people associated with the Democratic Party, but also to the people. ....
25 Aug 3:30 am  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Why Nausicaa is awesome
Via Roger Ebert, here is Filipino reviewer Michael Mirasol’s take on what’s so great about Miyazaki’s Nausicaa of the Valley of the W....
24 Aug 6:42 am  from  Mutant Frog   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Move the US Bases to….Korea?
The South Korean media has reported that President Lee Myung-bak supposedly told Barack Obama that he could count on Korea as a last resort....
20 Aug 10:17 pm  from  Japan Probe   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Can the Self-Defense Forces Actually Defend Japan?
If a foreign bomber entered Japanese airspace, would Japan shoot it down? Not necessarily, according to this hypothetical example from Bea....
20 Aug 8:13 am  from  Japan Probe   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Three guesses and the first two don’t count
UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO economics Prof. Ihori Toshihiro writes in the 18 August edition of the Yomiuri Shimbun: There are more public employees ....
19 Aug 9:00 am  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Yamasaki Hajime on the Koizumi reforms and Your Party
A RECENT ARTICLE in the English-language press claimed that Japan is about to enter its “third decade of stagnation”. How quickly they....
18 Aug 8:25 pm  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Japanese Apology to Korea [Political Cartoon]
A political cartoon about Japan’s most recent apology to Korea: As Japan apologizes to Korea, a group of people from other colonized nati....
18 Aug 1:53 pm  from  Japan Probe   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Shinto Shrine Near Pearl Harbor
There are plans to build a Muslim community center a few blocks from the site of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York City, and some Amer....
17 Aug 1:15 pm  from  Japan Probe   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Japan’s ‘War Heroes’
British and Japanese ultranationalists will shrug off protests from war veterans in an unlikely show of solidarity at a con....
14 Aug 10:09 am  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Dramatic Softbank ad for Twitter phone features dog as political candidate
Finally, Japanese politics has gone so whack that it's not all too unrealistic to imagine a dog running for office. Japan's most famous do....
14 Aug 1:11 am  from  TokyoMango.com   [Profile]  [Recent] 
You’ll be sorry
Don’t I have other things to do on this earth than avenge the blacks of the seventeenth century?… I am not a slave of the slavery that d....
11 Aug 3:54 am  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
first you get the money, then you get the power!
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10 Aug 8:49 pm  from  Hello Damage   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Japan apologizes for colonial rule of Korea and will return cultural relics
Japan’s government on Tuesday issued an apology for the country’s past colonial rule of the Korean peninsula, ahead of ....
10 Aug 3:56 pm  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Find the Centenarians Race Starts in Japan
It all began last week when a mummified corpse was found at a house in Adachi Ward, Tokyo. If the man, Sogen Kato, were sti....
8 Aug 1:37 am  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Hiroshima bombing anniversary
Today, August 6, 2010, is the 65th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, significant for being the first visited by a delegation f....
6 Aug 6:02 pm  from  Mutant Frog   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Banning all-you-can-drink promotions in Japan
According to recent guidance from the World Health Organisation, they would like member states to limit alcohol promotions, so in Japan the ....
6 Aug 12:06 am  from  What Japan Thinks   [Profile]  [Recent] 
What's it like being an American resident in Hiroshima?
Tomorrow is the day the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. It was a Friday morning at around 8:15am.Cycling home tonight along th....
5 Aug 11:38 pm  from  Hiroshima gab   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Hiroshima Pilot’s Son Denounces Obama’s “Unsaid Apology”
The son of Enola Gay pilot Paul Tibbets is angry about President Obama’s decision to send an official representative to tomorrow morning....
5 Aug 9:08 pm  from  Japan Probe   [Profile]  [Recent] 
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