Is a poetical name of Japan used in the medieval period. Yesterday, I visited Tanaka Jinja Shrine in Kyoto where mochi. People living around the shrine were gathering on the grounds of the shrine.

Contextual perspectives on the politics and international relations of the US, Japan, their relations, and the rest of East Asia. Wednesday, December 22, 2010. 99 to take a passport photo. Other companies like AAA and Fedex charge about the same. This is a pure racket.

We are all failures in one way or another, but failure is more than the end of something. It is the opportunity to begin something else. Enjoy your successes, accept your failures.

News and Views on the US, Japan, and US-Japan Relations. Dispatch Japan is written by Peter Ennis, a long-time chronicler of Japan and US-Japan relations. Fred Kaplan - War Stories. Tom Ricks - The Best Defense. The annual joint US-South Korea 10-day military exercise known as Ulchi Freedom Guardian commenced on Monday, with tensions on the Korean Peninsula considerably reduced from just two weeks ago.

News and Views on the US, Japan, and US-Japan Relations. Dispatch Japan is written by Peter Ennis, a long-time chronicler of Japan and US-Japan relations. Fred Kaplan - War Stories. Tom Ricks - The Best Defense. The annual joint US-South Korea 10-day military exercise known as Ulchi Freedom Guardian commenced on Monday, with tensions on the Korean Peninsula considerably reduced from just two weeks ago.

and patiently sit on my hard disk. Friday, May 8, 2009. Yes, but discrimination .

North Korea, Japan and the Politics of Fear and Outrage. It has a long time since I last posted here. Following the end of university course and the beginning of life as a graduate, it got gradually harder to write with the quality I expected. 8211; Saiki Akitaka Director-General Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau MOFA. 8211; Komura Masahiko Foreign Minist.

Blogging primarily at Autos and Economics. I may on occasion repost here, but have decided not to spread posts across blogs. During the Washington and Lee University. Econ 274 and Econ 398 as above. Saturday, January 3, 2015.

In practice, there is no special love or care for nature, nor is Japan uniquely unique. Sorry, but the sugar-coated fantasyland-Japan of Edwin O. Reischauer et al does not exist- if it ever did. Sunday, January 30, 2011. Sunday, January 16, 2011. In an angry time when Americ.

Wednesday, July 20, 2016. London Review of Books . The LRB passed, and it has sat orphaned on my hard drive. I figured I should probably put it here. A review of From The Fatherland, With Love. Translated from the Japanese by Ralph McCarthy, Charles de Wolf, and Ginny Tapley Takemori. Pushkin Press, 664 pp. The portrait Murakami has painted of Japan througho.