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This month Japan’s parliament elected a female prime minister first time in modern nation-state history. TAKAICHI Sanae, president of Japan’s ruling party LDP was elected as a prime minister of Japan’s national assembly, or Diet or Parliament. However, it is not as good news as it sounds. There are three major reasons.   1. The party she belongs to is not a good party. It has been amid scandals of bribery and inappropriate relationship with the cult organization recently so in last two elections the party lost seats and fell into the minority ruling party but thanks to...

I happen to watch this show while staying at a hotel in Okinawa. The hotel subscribed to Netflix so I could watch this American show on the hotel room TV. The TV show was remake of 1980’s popular soap opera of the same name. I watched that show while I was attending a university in the US. It was 1990’s so I watched the already re-runs of the show. I was addicted to the show, which helped me...

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...

It’s been thought women are not good at mathematics and not suitable for engineering jobs. But that kind of notions were proved to be nonsense a long time ago. The film “Hidden Figures” described...

A real story about women who worked in America's conservative mainstream news media network, FOX during 2016 US presidential election.  A popular anchorwoman, Gretchen was demoted and finally...