Article: Indigenous Ainu university student shares her culture with the rest of Japan on YouTube “TOKYO — A Japanese university student with Indigneous Ainu roots has taken to YouTube to share her culture and language, which she has learned to embrace over the years. Maya Sekine, 20, runs “Sito Channel,” Read more…
Article: Li Zhensheng: Photographer of China’s cultural revolution https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-53174079 Li Zhensheng realized that he could photograph the Chinese Cultural Revolution if he pretended to take the role of a state-friendly photographer. As a result, he was able to take thousands of sensitive photographs of the Cultural Revolution that he would Read more…
Article: India expels dozens of Pakistan diplomatic staff “India is expelling half the staff at Pakistan’s high commission (embassy) in its capital Delhi, accusing diplomats of spying and dealing with terrorists. India will also reduce staff by the same number at its high commission in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, the Read more…
Literature can be used to gain “reliable knowledge.” There are ways in which the knowledge can be viewed as having or lacking certainty. In the case of a piece of literature with a first-person narrator, the situation is a little bit different. First-person narrators are not necessarily trustworthy and can, Read more…
Article: Germany coronavirus: Extra police enforce German tower block quarantine “Police reinforcements have been sent to maintain a coronavirus quarantine on a tower block in the German city of Goettingen after violence on Saturday. Seven-hundred people were placed in quarantine, but 200 trying to get out clashed with police. The Read more…
Article: https://blog.gaijinpot.com/tbs-news-explains-japan-has-fewer-covid-19-cases-thanks-to-japanese-pronunciation/ A Japanese media outlet has given a reason for Japan’s low number of coronavirus compared to other countries. According to TBS, Japanese pronunciation expels less air (and therefore corona virus particles). The broadcast had a very basic and very unscientific test of the theory. Obviously, there are a Read more…
Scott McCloud is an very successful and well-known cartoonist. One of his comic books is Understanding Comics, a non-fiction text that “explains the inner workings of the medium and examines many aspects of visual communication.” http://scottmccloud.com/2-print/1-uc/ Given his background, it is easy to argue that McCloud’s Understanding Comics is “reliable Read more…
Article: “How Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale became a vivid graphic novel” https://www.macleans.ca/culture/books/how-margaret-atwoods-the-handmaids-tale-became-a-vivid-graphic-novel/ Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale has fairly recently been republished in the form of a graphic novel. The language of the quite dense novel has been pared down to a fraction of the original. The “What if” Read more…
Japan’s rapidly declining population is well-documented. There are a number of different people and groups in Japan have different opinions as to the reasons for it. Some male conservative politicians have stated that Japanese women are not doing their duty to the country and need to have more children. Finance Read more…
Article (satire): United States deploys troops to politically unstable nation of the United States “WASHINGTON, DC- The United States government announced today that it will send active duty troops to the chaos plagued country of the United States to help quell the growing civic unrest. “America is an important part of America’s strategic interests Read more…