Just a few weeks ago, Prime Minister Kishida Fumio announced plans to double defense spending over the next five years, increasing total outlays to 2% of GDP by 2027. The .....
Earlier this month, my wife and I decided to watch “Best Artist 2022,” a music special broadcast on Nippon TV (日テレ). It was presumably a compilation of the year’s best .....
Consider the humble katana sword. If you are a fan of jidai geki historical dramas, you understand the kind of damage these weapons can inflict in the hands of a .....
As we approach the fourth year of this *!&$# pandemic, it’s a good time to start asking how we are going to get out of it. The vaccines and medicines, .....
Japan is famously known as one of the safest countries on earth. Nobody gives a second thought to walking alone early in the morning or late at night, whether man, .....
Earlier this week, North Korea launched a series of ballistic missiles, including one that sailed high over Aomori Prefecture, at the north end of Japan’s main island of Honshu. I .....
In the part of America where I grew up, it was common to see people driving around town with a rifle or two nestled in the rear-window gun rack of .....
A few weeks ago, I posted an article about how the honeymoon phase of my relationship with Japan was over, triggered by an issue at my bank. Today, I wanted .....
