Bestselling Women Writers in Japan Defy Cliché
Mieko Kawakami, Asako Yuzuki, and other novelists offer fewer cats and cafés, more cultural critique
Perfect Blue
Perfect Blue (Japanese: パーフェクトブルー, Hepburn: Pāfekuto Burū) is a 1997 Japanese animated psychological thriller film directed by Satoshi Kon. It is loosely based on the novel Perfect Blue: Complete Metamorphosis…
What is Zen Buddhism?
Religion for Breakfast
The Secret History
An investigation of the US’s mass internment of Japanese Americans
tech won’t save us: How China’s Renewable Push Upends Geopolitics
Paris Marx is joined by Kate Mackenzie and Tim Sahay to discuss the geopolitics behind China’s investments in green tech and electrification, and how it presents the prospect of a…
I Saw the World End
At this instant 80 years ago (8:15am August 6, local time), Little Boy—a 15-kiloton, uranium-fueled atomic bomb—destroyed Hiroshima, killing (per US military estimates) ~70,000 men, women, and children, including 12…
Mornings Without Mii
Mayumi Inaba writes a heartbreaking story for pet lovers
The Healer By Rob Keast
He thought about turning to the orange-tie man and asking, Do you think all religion is born of desperation? As much as he wanted to be humble in the presence…
Sunfish that was unwell after aquarium’s closure recovers after human cutouts set up
TOKYO -- A solitary sunfish at an aquarium in southwestern Japan lost its appetite, began banging into the side of the fishtank and appeared unwell days after the facility closed…