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This week has been suicidal week for Japan. On Monday, minister of Agriculture and Fishery, Toshikatsu Matsuoka  committed suicide by hanging himself in the Diet members' residential building. He left several suicide notes including one to the whole nation. He was amid so many scandals. On the same day, famous singer, ZARD stepped down from the stair of the hospital, where she was hospitalized for her cancer cure. She did not leave any suicide note but it was speculated that she may have committed suicide. Next day, an old man who was the head of the organization linked to the minister's...

I rent DVD of TV Mini Series "Shogun" aired in U.S., 1980. I remember when I first visited the U.S., American host family where I stayed played the video of this show to welcome me. It was a very popular show. So I just wanted to see it again. The story takes place late 16th century in Japan, when Japan was not unified. An English shipper captain, John Blackthorne was saved by the Samurai...

  A story of a B-29 bomber pilot who time-travels from the war-time Tokyo to present-time. Please read from  Chapter 1  to  Chapter 5  first. 　 Jim and Sayuri were taking a taxi to...

Male Colors: The construction of homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan by Gary P. Leupp, Professor of Japanese History at Tufts University, USA, I happenned to buy this book almost ten years...

I rent the DVD of the film. It is one of Clint Eastwood's set of 2 films about Iwojima battles. The story of surviving soldiers who raised the pole of the flag on the Iwojima Island during WW...