Culture
Dripping with Irony and Yet Lyrical: How Cartoonist Taco Lin’s Satire is Very Much Like Taiwan
The outbreak of the novel coronavirus from Wuhan in late 2019 has thrown the world into a frenzy, […]
Author Archives for Jason Morgan, Reitaku University
Jason Morgan is an assistant professor at Reitaku University in Chiba, Japan.
Culture
So Long, Shimura Ken
Japan has lost a lot of ground to China these past 20 years. Japan’s roaring economy used to be […]
Culture
INTERVIEW | ‘Bonds Between People’: American Dancer Puts Kizuna Centerstage
Kizuna Dance | Company Residency Trailer | 2019 from Cameron McKinney on Vimeo. Cameron McKinney is an up-and-coming
Special Reports
INTERVIEW | Hanjin Lew: South Korea Should Fight Off Enemy — and It’s Not Japan
(Last of 2 Parts) Part 1: INTERVIEW | Hanjin Lew: Human Rights, Intelligence Sharing Will Help Repair U.S.-ROK-Japan
Special Reports
INTERVIEW | Hanjin Lew: Human Rights, Intelligence Sharing Will Help Repair U.S.-ROK-Japan Alliance
Credit: 우리공화당LIVE (First of 2 Parts) The relationship between Japan and South Korea is often said to be at [&hellip
Special Reports
Pope’s Visit to Japan: Unstated Hopes for the Church in Asia
Pope Francis’ visit to Japan this weekend marked the first time a pontiff has alighted on Japanese soil […]
Culture
‘Kyoto: Capital of Artistic Imagination’ at the Met in New York until September 2020
Nestled among the treasures from ancient civilizations in a museum at the heart of one of the modern world’s […
Politics & Security
INTERVIEW | Gordon Chang: Ending Intelligence Sharing with Japan Makes Sense Only if You’re Pro-North Korea
Second of Two Parts (Part 1: INTERVIEW | Gordon Chang: U.S., China Have Reached Tipping Point) The respected [&hell
Books
BOOK REVIEW | ‘Park Statue Politics’ by Thomas J. Ward and William D. Lay
There has been a troubling lack of understanding of the comfort women issue. Indeed, given the refusal in many [&helli
Culture
Clea Roberts: Canadian Poet with Japanese Aesthetic to Speak at Kyoto University
Canadian poet Clea Roberts will be performing her poetic readings at Kyoto University on Friday afternoon, September 1
Special Reports
INTERVIEW | Gordon Chang: U.S., China Have Reached Tipping Point
(First of Two Parts) The respected American scholar on Asian affairs Gordon Chang recently visited Tokyo to [&hell
Books
BOOK REVIEW | ‘China, Japan, and Senkaku Islands’ by Monika Chansoria
China has a long history of distorting its own long history. While civilizations everywhere bend the historical narra