Border from inside hut (gravel S.Korea; sand DPRK North Korea)

Historic meeting in Panmunjom, Korea! After many decades of Japanese colonialism, and 'protective' military occupation of South K...

Protest over pudding , as Japan shoves divided Korea's leaders closer together. Former colonial ruler Japan is not invited to tomorro...

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The US Department of Homeland Security seeks to compile databases and possible blacklists of "media influencers" - Bad News! (li...

Payoffs keep Lance wealthy & out of jail. Bad News for anti-corruption: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/19/sports/cycling/lance-armst...

Taxation Reform: Most Americans now file a postcard or less , and pay almost no tax ... Such lucky people in the best country ever. ...

Madeleine Albright's Sunday article "Will We Stop Trump Before It’s Too Late?" (link) wield...

Militarism is a never-ending plague. The USA posts armies around the world, in a huge waste of lives & resources. So Sad! Bring Our...

Springtime hope!  ... or Realpolitik: Prepare to survive the Worst. Korea's Jeju island, 3 April 1948, was horrible. Massacres pro...

Criminals reshape Japan... Most Japanese citizens keep silent. Cherry blossom theater. Assorted crimes were committed By government o...

Japan needs professional government, not butt-kissing bureaucrats working hard to seduce a few key political patrons .  So Corrupting! ...

On Tuesday 20 March 2018, Facebook Inc. (FB:NASDAQ GS) addressed their data sharing scandal with a folksy-arrogant press statement beginnin...

Shaped world?  Please Be Alerted & Get Disturbed by last week's chilling declaration we're each individually actively led. ...

Beloved shop closes down... Tempura "Imoya" Jinbocho 2-chome (Tokyo) shuts this week (link) I've eaten there (and at sist...

Today's Chosun Ilbo (English edition from South Korea) has an article titled "Pyongyang Resumes Anti-U.S. Propaganda" (link) ...

Japan's present "Heisei Era" ( 平成時代) will not last past April next year. This era of "peace everywhere" is due to e...

Patriotism Japonais = Loss of Peace? No worries!  Akie Abe works for Japan 安倍昭恵とアベ アーミー

Prime Minister Abe's Pride Hurts Japan Important business continues, but without top representation by Japan: the G-20, North Korea ...

Banzai Remilitarized Japan? PM Abe's right-wing government (and shadowy Nippon Kaigi) aim to quash Japan's "Peace" Con...

Prime Minister Abe & his right-wing confederates eagerly grabbed control of Japan's top civil servants via his Cabinet Bureau of P...

Japan's Prime Minister Abe has done great damage to Japan, destroying trust in government. Abe & advisors such as Finance Minister...

US bank liberalization is a contentious topic since 2008, when the government bailed-out private interests with massive public funding. S...

High alarm for business!   Japan's formerly well-regarded civil service looks corrupt & dirty due to the Moritomo Gakuen favori...

North Korea Makeover:      Pyongyang's Ryugyong Hotel  류경려관  柳京飯店

We should keep fossil fuels in the ground. We can develop cleaner energy sources - and it's good business. Too often energy source...

The special case ("特殊性") of far right-wing Moritomo Gakuen 森友学園 in Japan is an outrage, paying virtually nothing to secure valu...