GlobalTalk 21

More bad news for the Kan administration, according to the evening edition of the hardcopy Yomiuri . My translation, plus comments. Katsuyuk...

I’ve consistently maintained that there was no conspiracy and that it was a rogue Coast Guard officer, not anyone from the Public Prosecutor...

Far less coherent than I’d thought when I wrote it as an email, so I’ve edited it extensively. Still not completely sound, but life is short...

There must be more than enough opinions from the informed, less informed, uninformed, and of course the ill-informed to last a lifetime of r...

The search for The Source begins. In the meantime, an edited version of a memo that I sent out in response to suspicions of a high-level, po...

Yes, he will. At least that’s what I think. There’s been much speculation in Japan whether Hu Jintao, the Chinese President, will actually s...

According to this Sankei report , Prime Ministers Kan and Wen did have a chat around the ASEAN summitries in Hanoi after all. Tetsuro Fukuy...

There’s some commotion out there on a discussion forum about the Japanese media’s treatment, or lack thereof, of a October 3 event in Shibuy...

Questions, questions… I was with a group of mostly foreign academics engaged in Japan studies (and one fellow blogger), when one of the two ...

The Japanese Communist Party has come out with its official response to the Senkaku Islands incident, and you only need to know the title of...

In a clear sign that the Chinese leadership wants to move on from the Senkaku Islands incident, China’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman has bee...

Not very fun weekend, as I have just finished (hopefully) my first PowerPoint for presentation, on Tuesday…on a webcast. It’s in ugly black-...

On CNBC , at 7:30PM Tokyo Time? Just sayin’. Okay, back to my deadline work, for multiple clients. And liquor. There’s always liquor.

Sheesh . I can’t find a good word for it, since I don’t want to disrespect “shit,” a perfectly respectable word that is now having hard time...

The Chinese government made front-page headline news in Japan as it upped the ante on the Japanese government’s refusal to give up the fishi...

If so, there is a dialogue between Sun Bin and me in the comments here that you might want to look into.

…and mostly forgotten. Reid Jamieson—no, he’s not George Clooney’s evil, underfed brother—presenting Is It So Strange as an Elvis Presley ...

I shouldn’t be saying bad things about the MSM; my livelihood depends in part on their interest in what I have to say. Still, this Newsweek ...

Banri Kaieda, the new State Minister for Fiscal and Economic Policy, is promoting zero-interest, estate tax-free government bonds as a cheap...

From a well-earned, long lunch-break spent on the Internet, where still I’m unable to drift too far off the reservation. Sankei , if not alw...