Sensitivity is agony. In moderation it’s good, but moderation rarely knows when to stop, and soon becomes excess. Excessive sensitivity is a theme taken up by Spa magazine this month. Really, it’s better to be a clod. Your intellect may be sluggish and your imagination ...
Life in the pleasure district was fun, if you were capable of mustering up the right amount of charm.
Japan’s road to gender parity is rocky and potholed. Aera magazine this month chronicles a stumbling, faltering journey. A young father takes a month’s paternity leave. A day care center staff member greets him warily: “We usually deal with the mother.” "Yes,” says the father, “but ...
Influential Japanese writer may provide an example of the virtues needed to outlast the pandemic.
A key figure in the Russo-Japanese War, Gen. Maresuke Nogi was both a soldier and a poet.
The future alone can unveil its secrets — in its own time.
“If a married couple can’t get along in a pandemic, who can?”
There are striking affinities between Japan and Russia, noticeable even before either country was fully aware of the other. Both were backward by 19th-century European standards — economically, industrially, scientifically. Both felt it keenly, and responded similarly. Two clashing factions arose in each country — ...
While enormous things are currently happening in the world, we shouldn’t altogether lose sight of the small things either.
COVID-19’s most visible symbol is the mask, but 85 of 100 doctors surveyed by Shukan Gendai say masks are unnecessary in open outdoor spaces.
