Thursday, 26 March 2015

Kita Ikki [北 一輝] and the Origins of Democracy in Japan.

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The 1936 uprising in historical photographs. The 1936 uprising in cinema: 1962's 二・二六事件 脱出 & 1989's 226 . §1. At a t...
Sunday, 22 March 2015

Kokang 2015 (On Youtube)

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Crowdfunding for conflict coverage?  On Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mHtL1kSlas
Thursday, 19 March 2015

協, Kanji of the Week

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If you're interested in politics, you see the symbol 協 quite a lot, in both Japanese and Chinese. In Japanese, 協 is a rare example ...

Vegan Politics (Real Talk)

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The unadorned monologue, Youtube in its purest form: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x-IJlJwGVI
Sunday, 8 March 2015

Lil B, Not Yet Vegan

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In a career pinioned (verb) by the audience's apprehension that anything (and everything) the artist says is likely to be an act of s...
Sunday, 15 February 2015

The Japanese Red Army (日本赤軍), Wakamatsu Kōji (若松孝二) & Adachi Masao (足立正生)

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Shigenobu Fusako in the 1971 film and (in handcuffs) in 2000. The decade of the 1970s began with an airplane hijacking (called the Yodo...
Wednesday, 11 February 2015

露, Kanji of the Week

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When typing in pictographs (in languages like Japanese and Chinese) I sometimes put the character into Google image-search to confirm tha...
Saturday, 31 January 2015

The Buddhist Influence on Wu-Tang in 30 Seconds

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It only takes a few seconds for this to degenerate into an incoherent rant about Earth Day , but during a solid minute of clarity (from 0:30...
Friday, 30 January 2015

The Future Was Here.

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Monday, 12 January 2015

On Learning Chinese (and NOT Learning Chinese) in Western Universities

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Let's say that a team of researchers concluded that it takes 480 hours of instruction for an American student to reach level 1 in Chin...