Our Nukes, Ourselves
Nuclear heritage and nuclear stewardship in a quiet desert town
Kenya Will Never Was
...website, that one of the largest sources of funding is Japan, but the Kenyans’ refrain of “The West...” still remains. The journalists sound baffled. One chants the party line: Westerners...
Humid, All Too Humid
...Earthquakes in Japan, Thailand, Chile, Pakistan, Haiti, etc. were the result of global warming? Only pseudoscientists have answers, which are about as compelling as religious fanaticism. And those condemned Bangladeshis,...
This Week in Art Crime
...depiction of genitalia, which instead must appear censored or pixelated in film and photography. Despite this, Japan has a booming pornography industry, a strange dichotomy that Igarashi's artwork and subsequent...
Grudge Lust
...oneself with Shakespeare, Whigs, Tories, and Reformers all (perhaps most of English culture and many Englishmen), his former friends, and, most of all, himself. Midway through the essay, Hazlitt writes,...
Dispensing God's Care
Left critiques of the AHCA or Trump’s budget often miss the unique religious goals they serve.
Beauty Blogosphere 8.17.12
...not that my legs are a fraction as strong as Olympians')—when none of those features are particularly valued in our culture...yes, it feels sort of validating. Twenty-eight, looking great: Women...
Batter of Perception
...Illustration from Fairy Tales from Far Japan (1908) So mucked up with kneading dough she is she has to use her wrist to push her hair back from...
Built to Last
...as unoccupied as they look. They were very, very empty. RB: How then do these stadiums figure into local culture? JMS: A couple of the big complexes are actually south...
Sunday Reading
...of staff-driven unionism "A new, disassembled, fitting-and-starting labor movement." How to make up and spread a "weird Japan" story Local knowledge, bad press, and the future of Fukushima agriculture...
Solitary Confinement
...exotic, Shaw asserts that this perception "relies upon a viewers inchoate expectations of what a given culture's type should look like," built over time as the font is used on...
Sunday Reading
...(the) English in Current History Writing East India Company ship routes China & the Ancient Mediterranean World Sounding Islam in China Chinese Muslims & Shari’a Persians & Indians in Japan,...
A Condensed History of Canada’s Colonial Cops
How the RCMP has secured the imperialist power of the north
Hello, Round of 16; Farewell, Hair We've Left Behind
...in splendor. Your World Cup journey continues; 'tis a pity your World Hair Cup voyage must stop here. Keisuke Honda, Japan. Position: Forward. Hair: Remarkable. Keisuke Honda, as with...
Review: Girl Model
...and getting no work—despite the agency’s promise of at least two jobs during their stay in Japan—they think to examine their contracts. Lo and behold, if they gain a centimeter...
Sunday Reading
...bombing of Japan" "State officials ordered the photos removed from a website operated by the University of Texas at Austin." "three ambulances failed to find the Olympic velodrome because their...