What do Victory and Defeat Mean 75 Years After the End of the Pacific War?
On anniversaries of the defeat of Japan in the late 1980s, it was commonly quipped that the war was […]
Coronavirus
[Mythbusters] Why Trash-Talk Japan and Feed the NYT’s Blatantly Racist Editorializing?
On February 26, the New York Times (NYT) published an opinion piece by Koichi Nakano, identified only […]
Culture
Tears of a Mouse: Story Tells of Sesshu’s Journey to Becoming the Greatest Japanese Painter
The “Year of the Rat” has certainly gotten off to an inauspicious start, what with the COVID-19 pandemic, […]
Culture
Anti-Japan Racism in North America: An Eyewitness Report
It is broad daylight when I and a handful of acquaintances duck into a nondescript brick building in a […]
Special Reports
Japan in 2020: Making Sense of Professors in Overwhelmingly Insular American Universities
I sympathize with my Japanese friends when they wonder what American professors could be thinking. The American [&
Special Reports
[Mythbusters] White Makes Right When It Comes to Whaling
On the last day of 2018 the editorial board of The New York Times (NYT) issued one of its […]
Special Reports
Amelia Earhart as Japanese POW is Fake History Repeating Itself
In July 1937, Amelia Earhart, American aviator lionized for her bravery, and navigator Frederick Noonan left New Guine