Natsume and Newman: How a Japanese Novelist Challenges Us to Confront Human Sinfulness
Natsume’s works that wrestled with themes such as sin and responsibility are indebted to his experiences with Christianity.
Natsume’s works that wrestled with themes such as sin and responsibility are indebted to his experiences with Christianity.
The Japanese are famously split over the issue, which conjures up fears of an ultra-nationalist (if not imperialist) element rearing its head again—and gaining entrance to real power.
A court in Osaka confirmed the Japanese government’s stance that marriage is between a “man and a woman” to “bear children and raise them together.”
70 years ago Akira Kurosawa won the Oscar for his film Rashomon. In our world, that demands us to constantly pick sides, the tale of four different versions of a story, that questions our perceptions of reality and our inevitable subjectivity, is as current as ever.
The Russian-Ukrainian conflict is resurrecting other clashes over territorial sovereignty elsewhere in the world. Japan is taking advantage of the Ukrainian opportunity to make its claim to the Kuril Islands archipelago heard again, which it has disputed with Russia for more than 70 years. The Kuril Islands are an archipelago of volcanic islands located between […]
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