I watched the film on my flight to Paris from Tokyo last week. The film helped me to kill time during the very long flight hours.  It was a biography of the king of rock, Elvis Presley. He was born in southern state where seggregation was very common. But he grew up in a Black community so he had no prejudice against Black people but rather appreciate his experience with Black people who inspired him to sing in a new style. That is why he sang the requiam song for Dr. Martin Luther King "If I Can Dream" in 1968. That may be a reason why he played a protagonist in the musical film...

I just saw the film at a small theatre in Tokyo.  It was a biopic about the French politician who lived through holocaust and after the war became a lawyer and the minister of French government and became the first female president of European Union assembly.  She helped promote women's rights by legalisation of abortion in France, 1970's. She contributed to improvement of...

US supreme court ruled the affirmative action which sets racial quota in college admission is unconstitutional.   I, myself think it is not a bad ruling.  When a college chooses who is...

Last Sunday I visited Atsugi Air Base in Kanagawa prefecture, an hour train ride from Tokyo. The place is jointly used by both US and Japanese forces. There was an event to exhibit the...

The movie described how the decision of murdering 6 million Jews in Europe was made in less than 2-hour conference at Wannsee in Germany 1942.  One of the participants was Eichmann, a Nazis...