About Japanese curry, history, and culture
This is an interesting article about curry that I’d recommend in order to see how food, culture and history intersect in things one would not normally think.
Read MoreTechnology, music and how we understand society through popular culture: Kraftwerk, Yellow Magic Orchestra, and electronic music in the 1970s
What is the meaning of music to a society? Everyone has a special relationship with music, but not everyone can very clearly say what makes a song, a style or band special to someone. By looking at the cases of the two grandfathers of electronic music (Kraftwerk in Germany, Yellow Magic Orchestra in Japan), and how electronic music emerged in Germany and Japan in the 1970s, we can explore the relationship between popular music and the social, historical and cultural context in which it appears.
Read More"Comfort women," memory and reparations. A comment on the recent decision reached by the governments of Korea and Japan
The issue of "comfort women" is a lot more problematic than the recent decision reached between the governments of Japan and South Korea would seem to suggest. This is my personal comment, but with it I am also sharing a link that caught my attention. Unlike most media that praised the reparations the Japanese government is offering to former Korean "comfort women" (who were basically based as war-time forced prostitutes of Korean origin), the authors have a very critical perspective
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