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Downsizing Shinzō Abe
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe built an image of a creative disruptor. He disrupted a lot, but he didn’t create much....
Jeff Kingston
Jeff Kingston is the director of Asian studies at Temple University in Japan.
Articles
Exhuming Lafcadio Hearn
Jeff Kingston looks at three new books by and on the extraordinary Lafcadio Hearn....
A High-Stakes Gamble: Jeff Kingston on Eri Hotta’s Japan 1941
ERI HOTTA'S lucid analysis of Japan’s march to war against the United States in December 1941 resonates uncannily with Europe’s lemming-like leap to its own destruction in World War I, as described by Christopher Clark in The Sleepwalkers (2013). ...
Krys Lee on South Korea, Writing, and Disaster
From "Around the World"...
Japan’s Capital Unveiled
Tokyo is hot, and Tokyo is cool....
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