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Category Archives: Japan
The Two Cultures
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Posted in Art, Health, Japan, Literature, Netherlands, Science, UK
Tagged haiku, immunology, Sir Peter Medawar, Vincent Van Gogh
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Protection money: Don Corleone
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Posted in China, Italy, Japan, Korea, Military, Politics, Russia, Switzerland, USA
Tagged Don Corleone, Donald Trump, Estonia, Hyundai, Il pizzo, Kookmin University, Korea-US Free Trade Agreement, Lotte, Melania Trump, Mike Pence, Monaco, Moon Jae-in, Park Hui-rak, San Marino, Thaad
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Revolting robots
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Posted in Australia, Brazil, Economics, Finland, India, Japan, Literature, Netherlands, USA
Tagged Cleveland Ohio, Czechoslovakia, Ford Motor Company, Karel Čapek, Luddites, Margaret Thatcher, Milton Friedman, Namibia, Ned Ludd, R.U.R, robot, Thomas Paine, UK Coal Miners' Strike 1984-85, universal basic income, Walter Reuther
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Lost at sea
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Posted in China, India, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Military, Politics, Syria, USA
Tagged Alice in Wonderland, Aristotle, Bashar al-Assad, Donald Trump, Humpty Dumpty, Kim Jung-un, Narushige Michishita, Oxford Dictionary of English, Philp II of Spain, Spanish Armada, trumpery, USS Carl Vinson
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Merchants of death
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 19 November 2014 “A fag is a tube of paper with a fire at one end … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Europe, Health, Ireland, Japan, Politics
Tagged Ballymena, EU, gas chambers, hard drugs, Ian Paisley Jr, Japan Tobacco, JTI, JTI Gallagher, Martin McGuinnnes, Northern Ireland, Peter Robinson, smoking, Unite trade union
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Bowling googlies
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Posted in Japan, UK, USA
Tagged Emperor Hirohito, euphemisms, googly, Jayne Mansfield, straight bat, Winston Churchill
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Art and Aid
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 18 November 2013 The art market has shot off the radar. Stratospheric prices are being paid … Continue reading
Posted in Art, China, Japan, Politics, UN, USA
Tagged Andy Warhol, Art Newspaper, Balloon Dog, Christie's, Cy Twombly, Francis Bacon, Haiyan, Jeff Koons, Lucio Fonatana, Melanie Gervis, Philippines, Sotheby's, Willem de Kooning
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Torture and the United States
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Posted in Germany, Health, Japan, Torture, USA
Tagged Abu Ghraib, Camp Bagram, Dr Gerald Thomson of Columbia University, Guantánamo Bay, Hippocrates, Hippocratic Oath, Leonard Rubenstein, Mandy Rice-Davies, renditions, Taskforce on Preserving Medial Professionalism, Third Reich, torture
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Paris in the Fall
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Posted in France, Japan
Tagged Chanson d'Automne, haiku, Paris in the Fall, Paul Verlaine, violins
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Japanese civilization
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 13 October 2013 Remark by a Japanese diplomat to Sir Edward Grey (1862 -1933), British Foreign … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Japan, Military, Politics, UK
Tagged artists, Japanese civilization, killing, Sir Edward Grey, Viscount Grey of Fallodon
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