Bookworm on Jan 29 2012 | Filed under: Presidential elections
I’m planning a trip this summer to Japan, a country about which I know nothing. Actually that’s an overstatement. I know some things: it’s beautiful, historic, and clean (I love that part), and comes complete with great food and well-mannered people. But that’s all I know. Toji Pagoda I don’t have this tabula rasa problem [...]
Bookworm on Dec 07 2011 | Filed under: World War II
My mother’s heading to the hospital again today. She’s not aging gracefully, in large part because of the damage done to her body and soul during WWII. I thought that this would be a good day for me to reprint what I once wrote about her war (originally part of this longer post about Japanese [...]
Bookworm on Mar 15 2011 | Filed under: Japan
Mr. Bookworm, New York Times reader, was telling the children that there was a total catastrophe in Japan, with the Japanese and the world exposed to the possibility of massive radiation poisoning. I calmed the children’s fears by telling them that the paper could be right, but it could be wrong. First, newspapers sell well [...]
Bookworm on Nov 14 2009 | Filed under: Barack Obama
The Emperor of Japan is not a totalitarian dictator, thank goodness. Indeed, he seems like a very sweet little man. But what in heaven’s name is up with our president going around the world bowing? We’re Americans! We show respect, but we don’t bow. And there’s something really weird, too, about the most arrogant person [...]
Bookworm on Aug 05 2009 | Filed under: World War II
Tomorrow is the 64th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, and you can expect the usual breast-beating about how unutterably evil we were to target Japan’s civilian population. Here in Marin, a “Hiroshima survivor” is going to read poems and speak about her experiences. I freely acknowledge that this survivor went through a horrific experience [...]
Bookworm on Jun 08 2008 | Filed under: Israel, Japan
There is a horrific story out of Japan today about a man who crashed a truck into a crowd of people, and then proceeded to complete the carnage by stabbing as many of them as possible. The story says that the man ended his spree only when surrounded by police: A witness told NHK the [...]
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