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This last February ET and I took another trip to Japan, our previous one having been “only” in September 2010. ( see Kyoto; Kobe; Hakone and Tokyo from 2010). This time the focus was skiing with JK, and Tokyo! After Continue reading A 2013 Trip to Japan
“Another sort of coping takes place at the imaginative level.” Professor of contemporary Japanese literature Ted Goossen has an eaasy in this Saturdays Globe and Mail :Japan’s literature of the apocalypse From Saturday’s Globe and Mail Published Friday, Mar. 25, Continue reading Japan’s literature of the apocalypse, a essay
(also on YouTube) httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-nXT8lSnPQ In the words of Nicholas Kristoff, an eyewitness, as he recalls in the NYT on the June 4 massacre at Tiananmen Square: The night was filled with gunfire — and with Chinese standing their ground to Continue reading June 4th, 20 Years after Tiananmen
This weekend was the start of Chinese year 4707, which is Year of the Ox in the Chinese zodiac. As always we celebrated the Lunar New Year with 2 dinners, one on the evening and one on the new years Continue reading Celebrating Lunar New Year and Long Life with Tam Kwai Lan
as we hit another Lunar New Year, in this case Year of the Rat/Mouse. (where’s my cheese? Probably somewhere under this 30 cm of snow!)
I’ve gone and collected another set of Japan links once again, cause its the future, or at least one piece of it…. Via TokyoMango : Takeshi Kitano ( sometimes credited as ‘Beat’ Takeshi and best known in the West 1995 Continue reading Japan link roundup Sept 07