Japan

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 […]

Fyodor Kortukov06.07.2022

A newcomer from China, ramen (ラーメン or rāmen) quickly spread throughout Japan and gained fame as one of the most popular dishes here. From Kyushu to Hokkaido, it has won the hearts of Japanese people of all ages and has slowly begun to take on regional flair. Miso ramen originated in the north of the […]

Igor Koroteev28.06.2022

Japan’s participation in World War II is still not well understood. Perhaps because the pre-war policy of the Land of the Rising Sun was distinguished by complex turns and inconsistencies. By the 1930s, the Meiji Revolution had come to its end: an acute shortage of markets, a difficult economic situation due to the Great Depression. […]

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 […]

Serg Levine09.06.2022

The invitation of friends to the drum show “The Sea of the Blue Forest” at the Teatrium was a complete surprise for me, but I immediately accepted it, because I really wanted to compare the Russian version of the performance with the performance I saw at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas back in 1993. And […]

Serg Levine27.05.2022

“Do not look at what is against the rules, do not listen to what is against them, do not say what is against them” – Confucius (孔子 Kung Tzu), “Conversations and Judgments” (論語 Lun Yu). In many countries of the world, today it is customary to give friends and relatives as a sign of a […]

Maria Korzh26.05.2022

At the age of 13, I received my first love letter (ラブレター, rabu retā). It was waiting for me in my school shoe box (下駄箱, getabako). If you didn’t know, getabako was, and still is, a favorite hiding place for romantic letters for generations of Japanese teenagers. How to imagine the years of youth in […]

Nicholas Erin19.07.2020

Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry on Friday July 17th released a list of the first group of Japanese companies to be subsidized by the government to move production from China to other Southeast Asian countries or Japan. The first 87 companies or industry groups will receive a total of ¥70 billion ($653 million) […]

Nicholas Erin12.07.2020

A national facility devoted to the Japan’s indigenous people, or the Ainu and their culture opened on Sunday 12 July in their ancestral region of Hokkaido in northern Japan. The National Ainu Museum and Park in Shiraoi has a museum, a hall for the performance of traditional Ainu dance and instrumental music, as well as a […]

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 […]

The First Wave of Russian Emigration to Japan

Ramen With a Japanese Passion for Excellence

Pre-war Japan, or zigzags on the road to war

Love Oath on Gold Coin

Show of Japanese drummers, or taiko rhythms on the Russian stage

See no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil

The Inescapable Complexity of Japanese Love

Japan Announced 87 ‘China Exit’ Subsidies

The Upopoy National Ainu Museum and Park Opened

What Can We Learn From Japan?

The Last Stop. Part I

Fault Lines

License to Hate

Airbus Loan Tests Trade Truce