Japan

Yuri Chekalin15.04.2025

Despite the decision of the Japanese government to release additional volumes of rice from strategic reserves — after April 21 of this year, the third batch of 100 thousand tons will be put into circulation — retail prices for it remain high. At the same time, grain prices on the world market are falling, as […]

Yuri Chekalin11.04.2025

The art of tying up — hojojutsu — is one of the oldest in the arsenal of Japanese martial arts. Hojojutsu masters, who still exist today, can quickly and effectively tie up an opponent so that not only will he not be able to free himself, but every unnecessary movement will cause him pain, or […]

Alexander Palladin03.04.2025

Less than 120 years ago, on September 5, 1905, the Treaty of Portsmouth was signed in New Hampshire, ending the year-and-a-half-long Russo-Japanese War. According to various estimates, up to 80,000 Japanese and up to 52,000 Russian servicemen died in it, including my great-grandfather Afanasy Reshetnikov. For his role in Portsmouth negotiations U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt […]

Alexander Palladin20.03.2025

In June 1905, The Chronicle of the War with Japan weekly, published in Russia’s capital, ran this: “It can be said without any doubt that espionage has never been practiced in previous wars on such a large scale as it is being used now by our enemy in the Far East. The Japanese have flooded […]

Yuri Chekalin07.03.2025

“The streams of the receding river…, they are continuous; but they are not the same, the old waters… Bubbles of foam floating in the backwaters…, they will disappear, then they will reconnect anew; but they are not given to stay for long. In this world, people and their dwellings… and they are like bubbles on […]

Yuri Chekalin31.01.2025

While in Japan, Nicholas II demanded to get a tattoo, which somewhat shocked the locals. There was a reason for their surprise. Japanese citizens were legally banned from getting tattoos in 1872. Nevertheless, the newspapers wrote that Nicholas got a “tattoo of a dragon more than 1 shaku (about 30 cm) in size on his […]

Yuri Chekalin17.01.2025

After World War II, Japan imported many different ideas from America. One of them was that “a bread diet is better for health.” At that time, it was widely advertised that eating rice makes people stupid. Here is what Japanese scientists, supported even by the Japanese government, claimed at the time: “…The character of rice […]

Michael Mozzhechkov16.12.2024

In an exclusive interview with Nikkei, Chairman of the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) Ishiguro Noriyuki discusses the prospects for cooperation with the United States, which sets the trends for the development of Japan’s foreign economic activity. N. Ishiguro, who is on a business visit to New York, confirmed that JETRO’s representative offices in the […]

Alexander Palladin07.12.2024

In 1982, Charles Higham’s book “The Untold Story of Errol Flynn” was published in the United States. Sent to print on the eve of yet another anniversary of the Japanese attack on the main base of the U.S. Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor, it was dedicated to Errol Flynn, Hollywood actor of Australian origin and […]

Alexander Palladin29.11.2024

Jack London Covered The War Where My Ancestors Fought: Part 1 and Part 2. In Chemulpo Jack London found out that the war he was supposed to cover had begun a week before and that on its very first day after a brief battle with a Japanese squadron, Russian sailors instead of surrending sank their […]

Bread Instead of Rice

The Art of Tying Up

Russo-Japanese War: Stalin’s Revanche

Espionage Craft Practiced by Japan in Its War with Russia

The Forgotten People of Japan

Japanese Tattoo of Nicholas II

Food, Culture, Economy. Part 1.

Trump’s Economic Program is the Main Focus of Japanese Capital

The Unknown Role of Errol Flynn

Jack London Covered The War Where My Ancestors Fought: Part 3

Japan to keep importing Russian LNG

The Deal of the Century for Trump the Peacemaker

Fasting

The Glory of the World