Book Review: “The Bad-Mood Marriage” 不機嫌な主婦 なぜ女たちは「本能」を忘れたのか（朝日新書）
By Kaori Shoji As long as time immemorial, being a woman in Japan meant the rawest of deals. The long, long tradition of top-down patriarchy held that women were good…
Saying Goodbye To Japan
I count this as one of my teaching successes. One of my Japanese students is a budding illustrator, and one of her characters is Gachico. Last year when she started…
On Modern Slavery: Thoughts on Human Trafficking
[Not only do I find it personally abhorrent, but intellectually, it] is a terrible exploit of labor that robs women, men and children of their freedom and dignity. In fact,…
How the Japanese Went Under, and Stayed There
Uchida's speciality is throwing politics and philosophy, Aikido and women's issues, the income gap and Japan's slide into poverty, plus sex and relationship advice - all in one blender and…
The UN Hates Japan’s Hate Speech Indifference; LDP May Love Chance To Shut Up Protesters
The UN committee does not give ratings to countries on well they are doing in "eliminating racial discrimination" but the essence of third improvement order to Japan was: "you're failing…
Abysmal Man: A Charisma Man in Japan For Our Generation
So we reimagined Charisma Man, after way too many years in Japan---without every learning the language or blending into the culture. Meet "Abysmal Man"--an anti-hero for a new era. Dripping…
Put Tokyo in your pocket: Lonely Planet’s Pocket Tokyo is a great guide book
Tokyo is far to big to cover in one short trip, but Lonely Planet's travel guide to Tokyo shows you the places worth hitting.
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…