Upon a pillory – that al the world may see / A just desert for such impiety. - Warning Faire Women (1599) IF it were possible to bestow a person with a medal for services rendered to society, pi… more →
AMPONTANwrote 1 week ago: Upon a pillory – that al the world may see / A just desert for such impiety. - Warning Faire W … more →
wrote 1 month ago: This magazine has for some time pointed out that the policy reviews were nothing more than a perform … more →
wrote 1 month ago: BEFORE we return to our regularly scheduled programming, let’s have two quick posts to provide more … more →
wrote 1 month ago: HAVING the proverbial bad penny turn up is already inauspicious, but when the bad penny in circulati … more →
wrote 1 month ago: When your ideology has become rigid, you have checked your brains at the door. If you want proof of … more →
wrote 2 months ago: **This is the third of a multi-part series on Osaka Mayor Hashimoto Toru and the phenomenon he repre … more →
wrote 2 months ago: It’s been one year since the Tohoku earthquake. What we need now is not words, but actions. Not repe … more →
wrote 3 months ago: 一言居士 - A person who has something to say about everything Life is (a process of) rehabilitation. I … more →
wrote 3 months ago: RECENT opinion polls show that support for Prime Minister Noda Yoshihiko’s Cabinet is now below 30%, … more →
wrote 4 months ago: THE results of two recent public opinion polls tell us more about the Japanese perceptions of their … more →
wrote 4 months ago: Bullets are flying from all directions. Recently they’ve been coming from behind, from my allies. - … more →
wrote 5 months ago: The DPJ has an inseparable relationship with the extreme left. - Isozaki Yosuke, LDP member of the u … more →
wrote 5 months ago: HERE’s an anecdote about Hatoyama Yukio that I ran across yesterday. It typifies the pettiness … more →
wrote 6 months ago: A half-century experiment in draping steamship anchors around the necks of the productive class and … more →
wrote 6 months ago: JIJI is reporting that Health, Labor, and Welfare Minister Komiyama Yoko said after a Cabinet meetin … more →
wrote 7 months ago: 一言居士 - A person who has something to say about everything Prime Minister Hatoyama Yukio was the firs … more →
wrote 7 months ago: THERE are two possibilities: One is that former Prime Minister Hatoyama Yukio, nicknamed the Man fro … more →
wrote 8 months ago: PLENTY of people were saying plenty of interesting things last week with the start of the Noda Cabin … more →
wrote 9 months ago: The dojo, you know Doesn’t try to play goldfish - Dojo, a poem by Aida Mitsuo NODA Yoshihiko, the ne … more →