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Japan Subculture Research Center was founded in 2007 to expose the hidden side of Japan – its underground economy, its transient and strange trends, its robust sex trade, wacky politics,…
Japan’s Peace Constitution, Article 9, And Why Abe Wants To Dismantle It: A short primer
RENUNCIATION OF WAR Article 9. Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and order, the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and…
Abe-Japan’s Time Machine Back To The Nazi Era
In the summer of 2013, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Taro Aso, famous for his verbal gaffes declared in a speech to his political supporters, “Germany’s Weimar Constitution was…
Sex, Marshmallows and Cryptocurrency
Here is a trilogy of articles about porn, love, bondage, dominatrix, cryptocurrency, Japan and marshmallows. It’s been a hard week. BDSM For Cheap https://t.co/xxI3cAoHmN White Day https://t.co/ZCVtcurBcD The Price of…
Love Hotels Are Not Meeting Rooms. #MeToo doesn’t take off in Japan’s Hollywood
I’m a female actor in Tokyo. I thought I was safe from the filth of Hollywood, safe here in “innocent” Japan. But the truth is that Japan’s entertainment business is…
Japan’s Season Of Culinary Death Is Almost Over; Goodbye And Thanks For All The Mochi
Mochi are a glutinous Japanese specialty, often turned into a dessert, made from pounded steamed rice that Japanese usually eat to celebrate the coming New Year and other festive occassions.…
The Anger You Feel Towards A You Tuber Won’t Stop Another Suicide in Japan. What could?
" Logan Paul is an idiot, but imagine if all the internet's anger towards him was re-directed to the Japanese government to hold them accountable for a culture of suicide…
Write Hard To Live Free: Happy Year Of The (Watch)Dog! 番犬報道の年ですよ!謹賀新年
That doesn’t mean the society doesn’t have problems, such as child poverty, gender inequality and discrimination against: the handicapped, women, foreigners, especially Korean Japanese. Japan has a pestilent well-entrenched mob.…
Paternity Harassment Press Conference At (Labor Ministry/厚労省記者クラブ) today at 3PM
Paternity Harassment Press Conference At (Labor Ministry/厚労省記者クラブ) today at 3PM
Cursing in Japanese…but not the way you think.
It an illustrated history and textbook of cursing people and magic in Japan. You can learn how to make a Japanese voodoo doll, revive the dead, stop a lover from…