- Thu. Feb 5th, 2026
Tokyo 2020 Olympic Composer Tortured Disabled Children; Japan Says To The World, “Eat shit, no problem”
Remember that case where kids rolled up another kid in a mattress and killed him? We did that sort of thing (to the special needs kid) and stuffed them in…
The Music of Cruelty
“I’d strip (one kid) naked and roll him up in cords and make (him) masturbate. I made him eat shit and then performed a belly- to-back-drop wrestling move on him"
The Vaccination Game: The Self-Defense Forces Vaccination Center was run smoothly but no-appointment days are over
The large-scale Self-Defense Forces vaccination center near Otemachi, Tokyo, doesn’t open for another 70 minutes, and there is already a line of people looping around the large, brown, 16 story…
The People of Tokyo Hate The Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Why do they protest?
Yesterday, June 23rd, marked one month before the opening of the “cursed” Tokyo 2020 Olympics and hundreds of residents marked the occasion by holding a protest in front of the…
"Where Is The Romance?"–a hard-boiled meditation on mating rituals in Tokyo (for V-day)
In a departure from our usual somber posting, I’ve written an original prose-poem, which is for a friend’s upcoming “Where is the Romance” theme party in Tokyo–a pre-valentines’s day event.…
Pandemic highlights Japan’s historical lack of leadership and management
By Chihiro Kai “My evaluation of the Japanese COVID measures is that they are purely optimism based with no evidence, no grounds, as well as with very much a normative…
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Japan’s Monster Mermaid Amabie is Here To Save You From COVID19! (Maybe)
Though the typical Japanese yokai is often grotesque and loves to play pranks on humans, the Amabie is a beach chick that emerges from the sea to foretell epidemics. If…
Japan Solves Coronavirus Crisis With Magical Math
By Chihiro Kai. Edited by Jake Adelstein Suddenly, Japan which was facing a severe fourth wave of coronavirus infections, serious illnesses and death seems to be out of the woods!…
THE BADGER AND THE STARS (a poem)
This girl will be named Shoko, spirit in flight, and years later when I moved from place to place, hobby to hobby, man to man, she'd lament naming me so…
Tokyo Olympics could breed new COVID19 variant that kills “on a number even unthinkable in a conventional war.”
“The IOC should recognize that they are calling upon the athletes, the people of Japan and global citizens to take on these risks,” Ueyama said. “We will be facing a…