(First Part) Find Part 2 here: Touch Humor as JAPAN Forward Streams Japanese Comedy Rakugo Otemachi 2020. It’s easy to feel a little gloomy when every...
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I have something, as a Japanese, to be grateful to both Mr. Donald J. Trump, a Republican, and Mr. Joseph R. Biden, a Democrat. It...
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Above: Shiki Theatre Company's original production titled 'Robot in the Garden' opened at Tokyo’s Jiyu Theatre on October 3 and will run until November 29. ...
The beauty of things seasonal lie in their ephemeral nature - that fleeting moment when they can be most appreciated. There is a certain excitement...
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in March 2018 had famously dismissed the Quad and the Indo-Pacific concept as a “headline-grabbing idea” that would “dissipate...
The Japanese didn’t get any of this year’s Nobel Prizes, but they continue to harvest awards from its parody prize that honors and celebrates...
We have been coping with the COVID-19 pandemic for over six months now, six of the longest months of any of our lives. And...