Image by Kit. This essay is for Mohara Gill, because she gave me the idea. Some years ago, critics worried that the novel was dying. The first novel, Tale of the Genji, was written by a Japanese woman Murasaki Shikibu in the early 11th century. And so it would be surprising to discover that such…
What an unhappy country this is, ranking a dismal 55th in this year’s World Happiness Report. Why should it be so? Japan is democratic and at peace, its… © Japan Today
An American man has been arrested for illegally entering a restricted tribal reserve area on North Sentinel Island, part of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in India, and leaving a can of coke and coconuts as an offering. Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, 24, was detained after he sailed to the island, home to the Sentinelese…
Image by Markus Spiske. The winds of March are roaring and everywhere you look peace is in the air, or at least that’s the impression you might get from eyeballing the latest headlines. Every other day it seems like another batch of barrel bomb-flipping butchers is getting together over finger sandwiches in the banquet room…
On the outskirts of Paris, 44-year-old French Muslim weightlifter Sylvie Eberena concentrates hard and pushes 80 kilos of bar and weights clean over her veiled head. The single… © Japan Today
