Trolls are so upset about their hero being called out re 「女史」that they went and edited the wiki entry. Here's an archived version. https://web.archive.org/web/20210322203014/https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A5%B3%E5%8F%B2…
omg peak librarian: every time someone goes into Fukui Prefectural Library and asks for a book but gets the title wrong, librarians catalog the mistake into a "misremembered book titles" section that gets published to their website
https://library-archives.pref.fukui.lg.jp/tosyo/category/shiraberu/368.html…
Scenes from Kyoto last weekend. Domestic tourists are returning, but without international arrivals the levels are still manageable and nowhere near pre-pandemic crowding. It’s nice. Reminds me of when I first visited in early 90s.
The kind of criticism hurled at Princess Mako on social media echoes the treatment of women who have spoken out about sexual assault or even workplace rules about wearing high heels.
"I shocked a middle schooler to the core talking about how 'back in the day Home Ec was only for girls, and boys did tech class.' Got asked 'was that in the Meiji or Taisho eras?' and was about to answer 'no, at the end of Showa,' but that's wrong. It was Heisei..."1/2
Rode the Seibu 001 series “La View” for the first time to Chichibu. Train cars designed by architect Kazuyo Sejima. These (almost) floor to ceiling windows got me 西武鉄道の特急ラビューで秩父へ。初めて乗ったけど大きい窓最高だな。遠足行く子供みたいにテンション上がった。
So I’ve been getting serious medical things sorted out for the past few months. For today, I paid a grand total of ¥380. I was able to choose a place & a specialist for myself.
It sucks that the country I was born in would never offer the same.
Healthcare is a human right.
This article makes an important point that others have not — that the Imperial Household Agency lack PR skills and handled the Komuro situation badly.
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Is Princess Mako’s college sweetheart — who officially becomes her husband on Tuesday — worthy of her? It’s no secret the couple has had difficulty winning the Japanese public’s blessing, So why is this royal wedding coming under such criticism? My latest.https://japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/10/25/national/imperial-household-agency-princess-mako-tabloid/…
For the second time today I’m going to say “Good luck with that”
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Actor, diplomat, and humanitarian Steven Seagal was on Soloviev's show yesterday to discuss "fixing" Russia's relations with Japan, where he used to be an aikido teacher. Apparently he's going to meet the new Japanese PM and sort everything out
Is Princess Mako’s college sweetheart — who officially becomes her husband on Tuesday — worthy of her? It’s no secret the couple has had difficulty winning the Japanese public’s blessing, So why is this royal wedding coming under such criticism? My latest.
David Prager Branner, The Norman Reconstruction of Chinese. WBAOS 2021
Thoughts on Jerry Norman's "Common Dialectal Chinese" reconstruction, in application to the performance of medieval Chinese literature. There a fuller slide-...