Review & Opinion

Viktor Alksnis31.08.2022

Gorbachev has died. I will not express grief over this. The only thing I regret so much is that he and his accomplices in the destruction of a great country were not brought to justice. In the period 1989 – 1991. I, being a People’s Deputy of the USSR and one of the leaders of […]

Yuri Chekalin22.02.2022

Recently, my friends from Moscow sent me two cans of dietary supplement Algasgel. They wanted to know my expert opinion on what kind of market there might be in Japan for such products. Since I have been dealing with this topic for quite a long time, I decided to present my answer in the form […]

Sergey Lazutin22.07.2020

Hong Kong’s National Security Law, COVID-19 outbreak and the shifting Poles of the Global Economy are all shocks that have come to the world from China. Hong-Kong, well-known all around the world as business cape and a wealthy harbor and one of the world’s famous multinational corporations checkpoint, now is experiencing the local pressure from […]

Denis Makhotkin28.06.2020

Japan is a miraculous country. Centuries-old traditions, rich history, unique culture, amazing unity of the nation and prominent technological development — all this is mixed in the overall image of the country. Many people are trying to answer the question: what is the essence of the Japanese miracle? The base for effective interaction in any […]

Yuri Chekalin19.05.2020

Yuri Bakhurin’s book, The Front and Rear of the Great War, is a true World War I encyclopedia. In it, the reader will find for himself a lot of informative and fascinating. How did the soldiers eat (even with the scheme of the design of a pack kitchen), what did they drink, what did they […]

Yuri Chekalin17.05.2020

There is one anime that you can be sure every single person in Japan knows, young and old alike, and that everyone has seen at least one episode. It’s inescapable but still largely unknown outside Japan. It is called Sazae-san. Although not many Western fans of anime and manga know about Sazae-san, but you should. The series […]

David K. Shipler08.05.2020

Tired of wishes, Empty of dreams — Carl Sandburg The man who washes cars does not own one. The clerk who files cancelled checks at the bank has $2.02 in her own account. The woman who copy-edits medical textbooks has not been to a dentist in a decade. This is the forgotten America. At the […]

Mitsuyoshi Numano07.05.2020

Many people would say that Dostoevsky’ short novel “Notes from Underground” marks the beginning of the modernist movement in literature. Other candidates: Diderot’s “Rameau’s Nephew,” written in the seventeen-sixties but not widely read until the eighteen-twenties, and, of course, Flaubert’s “Madame Bovary,” from 1856. Certainly, Nietzsche’s writings, Freud’s theory of neurosis, Kafka’s “Metamorphosis,” Bellow’s “Herzog,” […]

Yuri Chekalin30.04.2020

The women of the world for which Genji was written had households to run or lords and ladies to serve, and they could be busy with many tasks, duties, or pastimes. Still, the pace of life was slow. The tale is for readers who have time. Not only is it long, but it invites a […]

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On Gorbachev’s Death

Dietary supplements market size in Japan

China is the Birthplace of Global Challenges of the 21st Century

What Can We Learn From Japan?

Review of Yuri Bahurin’s Book “The Front and Rear of the Great War”

Sazae-san and Humor in Japan

Poverty in the US

The Modernist Movement in Literature

Reading The Tale of Genji Today

The Michael Jackson Biopic is Missing its Most Controversial Story

Madama Butterfly and the Japan of the Western Imagination

The Spanish Civil War at 90: the Republic’s Response

Terminator Is about 80 Years Old