Yuri Chekalin

Yuri Chekalin04.01.2023

Emilio Kosterlitzky was one of the most colorful characters to ever serve as a special agent. A cultured, Russian-born man of the world, he spent four decades in the Russian and Mexican militaries, rising to the rank of brigadier general in Mexico. To avoid the dangerous tribulations of the ongoing Mexican Revolution, he settled down […]

Yuri Chekalin18.10.2022

Pyongyang’s nuclear capability is increasing, but international capacity or interest in dealing with them is limited. The details vary, but the picture is immediately recognizable: a salvo of missiles followed by chilling new rhetoric. This time, North Korean state media claimed that the recent flurry of tests simulated strikes against targets in South Korea and […]

Yuri Chekalin27.09.2022

A rare state funeral for Shinzo Abe, the former prime minister who was assassinated in July, has split Japan. The hawkish Abe was one of the nation’s most divisive postwar leaders, but it is the ruling party’s cozy ties with the ultra-conservative Unification Church that has fired up much of the opposition to the funeral. […]

Yuri Chekalin26.08.2022

Chapter 1 “In the cold, in the cold From familiar places Others call us cities … “ V. Vysotsky In 1854 under the muzzles of the guns, the American Commodore Matthew Perry forced the Japanese to sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship with the United States and “open” to the world. This event, like […]

Yuri Chekalin08.08.2022

For a long time I wanted to talk about little-studied events like conspiracies in the army, terrorism and the like, so I decided to publish several essays on the history of Japan in the 1920s and 30s. Of course, this will affect politics, economics, sociology, and even culture. I thought for a long time where […]

Yuri Chekalin23.06.2022

The romantic love story of a Russian prisoner of war and a Japanese nurse served as the plot for the musical Oath on a Coin (Chikai no Koin) by the Japanese Botchan Theater (坊っちゃん劇場, Botchan Theater) from Ehime Prefecture (愛媛県, Ehime-ken). For almost 30 years, every second Saturday of the month, about a hundred students […]

Yuri Chekalin31.05.2022

Justice Minister Yoshihisa Furukawa warned Ukrainian refugees against working in hostess clubs and the adult entertainment industry. He said on Friday that it is not uncommon for Ukrainian women who have come to Japan to work in hostess clubs and other adult entertainment venues. He warned that such work is not allowed under the visa […]

Yuri Chekalin19.05.2022

Ministry of Finance of Japan: exports to Russia in April fell by 69.3%, imports increased by 67.3%. Russian imports to Japan increased by 67.3 percent in April, the Japanese Ministry of Finance reported. In absolute terms, the figure was 187.1 billion yen (1.45 billion dollars). This was facilitated by rising energy prices. Meanwhile, exports fell […]

Yuri Chekalin12.04.2022

East Japan Railway Co on Thursday resumed services on the entire Tohoku Shinkansen bullet train line for the first time since a powerful earthquake hit the country’s northeastern region nearly a month ago. Services were disrupted when a Tohoku Shinkansen bullet train traveling between Tokyo and Sendai, the capital of Miyagi Prefecture, derailed following the […]

Yuri Chekalin11.04.2022

Police in Akashi, Hyogo Prefecture, have arrested a 57-year-old man on suspicion of attempted murder after he dropped a bowling ball to the street below from the 4th-floor corridor of his apartment building. According to police, the incident occurred at around 10:40 p.m. on April 10, Kyodo News reported. Police said Michio Shimizu, a carpenter, […]

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Yuri Chekalin

The Russian Cossack Turned Special Agent

Armageddon and North Korea

Abe’s Funeral and Japanese Society

Japanese in America: A Brief Overview

The First Wave of Russian Emigration to Japan

Love Oath on Gold Coin

Ukrainian-Japanese Commonwealth

Imports from Russia to Japan have risen sharply

Entire Tohoku bullet train line back in service a month after quake

Man arrested after dropping bowling ball from 4th floor of apartment building

My Tribute To Mark Twain

This is Important

Trump Can Already Be Considered to Have Won Pennsylvania

Leo Tolstoy’s Offsprings