Recently I was given a history book on a narrow, though interesting, subject — the literature of Japanese/American warfare written between 1900 and 1940 entitled The Century of the Black Ships. It was written by a Japanese scholar, Naoki Inose, and published in Japan in 1993. Viz, a manga publisher, translated the book into EnglishContinue reading “On The Century of the Black Ships”
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On Toilet Fires
This headline almost speaks for itself: “Free repairs to flammable toilets.” It seems in Japan there’s been a rash of toilets catching on fire. From the article’s lead: Japan’s leading toilet manufacturer Toto is offering free repairs to 180,000 toilets after some of them caught fire. There have been three incidents of the electric bidetContinue reading “On Toilet Fires”