Anime, Japanese animation, has long been popular internationally. Anime series such as Dragonball Z and Sailor Moon gained popularity in North America after being broadcast on Cartoon Network’s Toonami lineup in the early 2000s. Hayao Miyazaki’s feature length animated films have set global box office records, topped only by the recent Demon Slayer the Movie: …
Japan has a long history of accepting refugees. European Jewish refugees fled to Japan to escape Nazi Germany, and in the 1970s Vietnamese refugees sought sanctuary there as well. Following WWII, many Koreans began to make their home in Japan, and came to be called ‘Zainichi’, meaning ‘those who stay’. However, Japan has seen criticism …
Author Chesil’s debut novel “The Color of the Sky is the Shape of the Heart” takes its title from a Japanese proverb, meaning that perception depends upon emotions. So too does history often become a matter of perception, its perspective notoriously being decided by its ‘victors’: the conquerors, rather than the conquered, the refugees, the …
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Its full title is rather clunky: Demon Slayer-Kimetsu No Yaiba-the Movie: Mugen Train. Called Demon Slayer: Mugen Train for short, despite not having as evocative and sentimental a title as the artful works of Studio Ghibli the anime tie- in film unseated Miyazaki’s Spirited Away as the highest grossing box office film in Japan’s history. …
In a year and some change, CIRRRCLE have established a following as a hip-hop trio. CIRRCLE not only have a unique sound but also an intersting backstory.
From athlete to writer, to entertainer, Genki Sudo has undergone numerous reinventions that have made him quite the renaissance man. Let’s look at them.
