Fans of this blog frequently send me material for my regular "Japan: Nuked Too Much or Not Enough?" posts. And as you know, I've never flinched from posting about Chinese chainsmoking, spitting on the sidewalk and other forms of public expectoration, "colorful" eating habits and those now-infamous … [Read more...]
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“I suspect you’re right about the Japanese…”
writes a friend, in (not quite an) answer to my eternal question: Were they nuked too much, or not enough... Executive Koala is the simple tale of a koala executive at a Japanese pickle … [Read more...]
Gee, how can I get to be the ‘senior fellow’ of something or other?
I don't know about this "The Bomb Didn't Beat Japan" article in Foreign Policy. Japanese culture and "European" culture are very … [Read more...]
‘The Japanese: our moral superiors in a crisis!’
That's what a friend wrote in the email's subject line. I've alluded to this earlier but do bear in mind what may be to come: The surviving victims of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are called … [Read more...]
What movies get wrong
Movies get a lot right and a lot wrong. The "wrong" stuff tends to happen when movies (and TV) get all "deep" and metaphorical and "what if" on you -- "hey, what if there was a JEWISH suicide bomber, huh??"; "Hey, let's make the aliens stand-ins for black South Africans (even though the "invaders" … [Read more...]
Agreed. Except: they really ARE backward…
Andrew McCarthy writes: Mind you, I’m no dove. I daresay I’m as much or more of a hawk than the nation-building side of the house. I’ve bit my tongue for a long time, and it … [Read more...]
Bernie Farber says I am: “a purveyor of some of the most offensive racial stereotypes I have ever read”
UPDATE: this email just came in from a reader in the London, Ontario area: I saw your tweet yesterday about talking to the London Free Press, and I hoped you hadn't spoken to Randy Richmond. But alas, I saw the morning paper and realized it was true. If you look up this guy's … [Read more...]