Weekly Highlights From the Japanese Press No. 3 Covering Tokyo Shinbun for March 25 to March 30, Weekly Shincho for March 28, and Weekly Bunshun for March 28 Weekly Highlights From the Japanese Press No. 3 Japan, Past and Present is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid
Weekly Highlights From the Japanese Press No. 2 Covering Weekly Bunshun for March 21, 2024 Weekly Highlights From the Japanese Press No. 2 Weekly Bunshun1, March 21, 2024 Issue Self-Immolation in Solidarity with Palestine Machiyama Tomohiro2, like the entire mainstream Japanese press, stands in solidarity with Palestine. But instead of emitting the shrill denunciations that you find elsewhere,
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Lectures on the Mind for Young Samurai, by Mishima Yukio "The approximation of all forms of sex to the trifling, if expensive, escapist pleasure that comes from taking [sleeping] pills may be called the most critical phenomenon of our time." Lectures on the Mind for Young Samurai Mishima Yukio For Young Samurai Subscribe On Life After beginning life, people gradually
Carnival of the Animals, by Kure Tomofusa "I am, more essentially, criticizing the fact that these anti-discrimination movements are ruled by the delusion called human rights ideology." Carnival of the Animals Kure Tomofusa1 It was from around 1970 that the acts of denunciation of the various organizations of the anti-discrimination movement exemplified by the Buraku2 Liberation League3
The Aesthetics of Manliness, by Yukio Mishima "Clothing [...] is none other than that which expresses the characteristics of the sex, the characteristics of the aggressive combative male. Clothing is sexual." The Aesthetics of Manliness by Yukio Mishima There was a man who, unable to help being wealthy, had ten suits made every month at a tailor in
Preface to Asia, Europe, Japan, by Ōkawa Shūmei "World history in the true sense of the word is nothing other than the history of the confrontation, antagonism, and unification of East and West." Preface to Asia, Europe, Japan Ōkawa Shūmei1 Subscribed For the past year, I have in more than ten lectures in various places striven solely to