Japan’s Toxic Olympics: 10,000 Deaths and more to come
There is a Japanese saying, (悪因悪果) that “from bad beginnings come bad endings”. Holding the Tokyo 2020 Olympics in the midst of a pandemic will not end well. The Tokyo…
“Nothing says love like menstrual blood.” In Japan, V-Day chocolates are really special
Well, some women in Japan, and probably a very small number of them, in order to spice up their home-made chocolates with a little extra something, or give their store…
‘White Day’: a new poem from ume’SHHU
It’s been several months since we announced the publication of the Japanese angsty poetry collection, Molasses and Shochu, but we wanted to share this new addition by Phoebe Amoroso also…
The most terrifying J-horror film ever made. The people vs Prime Minister Abe Shinzo during the coronavirus.
【あかりちゃん】【VSコロナ】 お気持ちがワチャワチャしたので動画作ったお🙌 コロナ大変だよね😢みんなちゃんと手洗ってる⁉️👏👏 歌声と可愛いワンちゃんで🐶癒やされてﾈ😉 Youtube→https://t.co/qsTcQeg0aD#うちで躍ろう#うちで踊らせろ#自粛と給付はセットだろ #自粛と補償はセットだろ pic.twitter.com/ZkBEMNj2ew — あかりちゃん😷 (@oshieteakari) April 14, 2020
Germany calls Japan’s coronavirus bluff. Embassy says, “Nippon is lying. Expect a surge of coronavirus cases.”
–a short polemic about an incubating topic Germany has decided that saving lives is more important than saving face. In a rather undiplomatic letter to German citizens in Japan posted…
British widow fights to know the truth on 34th Anniversary of the Japan Airlines Flight 123 crash.
by Susanne Bayly-Yukawa I am the British widow of Akihisa Yukawa who was one of the 520 victims who died in the Japan Airlines Boeing 747 flight 123 from Tokyo…
Statue of a Korean Girl Causes Meltdown at Aichi Triennale
by Kaori Shoji It’s 35 degrees Celsius in Nagoya City and the mercury is expected to rise even further. Maybe the recent incident at the Aichi Triennale has something to…
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[The Journalist] Shines Light on Japan’s Dark Side (film review)
Yoshioka completely lives for her job, to the point of excluding everything else from her life. It turns out that her father (also a journalist) had killed himself over an…
Meet The Beast! A night with Bob Sapp This Friday
Bob Sapp, Pro Fighter and Actor will speak at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan this Friday! 18:30-20:00 Friday, June 7, 2019(The speech and Q & A will be in…
Review: Teach me Enma-sama
In the children’s picture book Teach me Enma-sama, written and illustrated by Hiromi Tanaka, Enma who is the King of Hell in Buddhist mythology teaches children how to behave in…