Over-Educated, Under-Paid and Most Likely Single: Women in Japan’s Academia
Japanese academia is crowded with smart, talented women, according to the book Kogakureki Jyoshino Hinkon, but it seems very few in this country have any idea how to welcome or…
Who really wrote Henry Stokes’s revisionist history book? More questions.
yodo News questions about the last 2 lines of Chapter 5. Henry said his idea is different. I insisted that is my understanding of what he said. After Kyodo interview…
In regards to “Questions surround reporter’s revisionist take on Japan’s history”
On May 8th, Kyodo News published an article concerning former New York Times Tokyo bureau chief Henry S. Stokes and his recent best-seller 英国人記者が見た連合国戦勝史観の虚妄 (Falsehoods of the Allied Nations’ Victorious…
Outsiders Amongst Outsiders’: A Cultural Criminological Perspective on the Sub-Subcultural World of Women in the Yakuza Underworld
Rie Alkemade Abstract: This research explores a lesser-known aspect of the infamous yakuza subculture: the wives. Implementing a triangulation of methods and embracing a cultural criminological perspective, this thesis aims…
Japan Passes Draconian Secrecy Bill Into Law: Journalists, Whistleblowers are now “terrorists”
Of course, every country has a fundamental right to protect its citizens' interests and there is an obvious need for some issues relating to national security to be secret. However,…
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Japan’s Secrecy Bill: Designed by Kafka & Inspired by Hitler?!!
Legal experts note that even asking pointed questions about a state secret, whether you know or don't know it's a secret, could be treated as "instigating leaks" and the result…
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Book Review: Tokyo Underworld–a classic on the dark side of Japan
There are very few gaijin (foreigners) who know what happens on the dark side of the rising sun like Robert Whiting. Whiting is an American author and journalist living in…
Haruki Murakami Wins The Nobel Prize For Literature!….in Japan. For a few minutes.
It was reported on the evening of October 10th that Japan’s much beloved novelist Haruki Murkami had won the Nobel Prize for Literature on October 10…but this turned out to…
21 Reasons Why Japanese Men Suck (A Book Review) by Ms. Kaori Shoji
Mr. Morikawa does make a sound observation, albeit not a very helpful one: that 10,000 years ago in the Jomon Period, Japanese couples got married at 14, had their first…
Meet 281: Japan’s Anti-Nuke Lone Ranger turning protest into art
after the accident, 281 wanted to find an outlet for his anger and a way to contribute to the anti-nuclear movement. It was then that he turned to street art.