"I came to appreciate his willingness to rethink his own position if he concluded he had been in the wrong, and to try to make amends”ー...
"I swear on my life of 100 years. Whatever anyone says, I am Japanese.”
Indeed, it’s hard to imagine anyone less suited for dealing with the Japanese. Still, there have been other apparently poor choices that turned out to be...
The LDP secured 261 seats on its own in the 465-member house, a comfortable margin over the 233 seat parliamentary majority benchmark, even without its primary...
Is this nomination for the position of U.S. Ambassador to Japan, as one writer suggested, simply to exile the Chicagoan as far away from D.C. as...
Whiting has known baseball stars, wrestlers, politicians, media moguls, mafiosi, con artists, journalists, and countless average Japanese people. He writes about them all with the immediacy...
Fear sells, and the media uncritically pushes everyone’s alarmist messages, whether it is an “epidemic of the unvaccinated,” or a new mutant virus, or overburdened hospitals.
High profile hafu athletes such as Osaka, Hachimura, and sprinter Abdul Hakim Sani Brown, are the public faces, but the more substantive force of this change...