I think Queen is one of the biggest bullshit bands in the history of rock and roll, just complete overwrought garbage. But if I am going to do my one-man performance at the Budokan in the next month, I need to learn from those who...
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Since I'm in Tokyo and have major jet lag, let's watch a film about the nation. It's 1956. You are the U.S. military. Your troops are....probably not very well-informed about.
Back in 2020, I was selected to be a visiting scholar in Japan as part of the Organization of American Historians-Japanese Association of American Studies collaboration. They select two American.
This building is amazing and an object lesson in how not maintaining our modernist masterpieces are going to lead them to all fall apart very soon. Tokyo’s Nakagin Capsule Tower, designed by 20th-century Metabolic Architecture proponent Kisho Kurokawa and completed in the early 1970s, will...
ARLINGTON, TX - NOVEMBER 21: Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones watches as the Cowboys take on the Detroit Lions at Cowboys Stadium on November 21, 2010 in Arlington, Texas. (Photo.
Everything's fine! We've got this climate thing under control! Amid an exceptionally warm March in Japan, the cherry blossoms in Kyoto peaked Friday, the earliest in more than 1,200 years.
It was ten years ago that the earthquake and tsunami in Japan caused the greatest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. There's been any number of stories to remember the anniversary and discuss the many unsolved problems. Here's one on the impact upon water and what to...
This 17 minute film is a slice of life from Tokyo in 1966. Nothing incredibly profound here, but a good look at home life, manufacturing, markets, etc. And there's plenty.
Today is the 75th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing. So tonight's film club is what exists on YouTube of the powerful, angry, and wonderful 1952 Hideo Sekigawa film Hiroshima. Paul's.
This is the grave of Matthew Perry. Born in 1794 in South Kingstown, Rhode Island, Perry grew up in the world of post-Puritan respectability, with many ancestors being leading early Europeans in New England. In 1809, Perry entered the Navy. This made sense, as his...
This entire thread is incredible. The picture above: It's just John Adams fighting a giant snake. A thread of images from a Japanese illustrated history of America from 1861.Here is.
Today marks the Immortal Bard William Shakespeare's 454th birthday! The inventor of thousands of new English words, for no reason at all,.