What Kendo Says About Japan & Korea: A First-Hand Account of the 17th World Kendo Championships
The W.K.C. is held every three years. Its seventeenth edition was hosted by South Korea from the 12th to 16th of September, 2018, and featured […]
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We Need To Talk About Kimchi
Kimchi. The ubiquitous spicy fermented cabbage dish that haunts our lives in Korea. Some people love it. Some people loathe it. But as long as […]
Inheriting Unfinished Revolutions: Biden’s Middle East Challenge
Vice President Joe Biden meeting Saudi Arabian officials in Riyadh, 2011/ Credit Getty Images. A Promising Middle East When the Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi […]
Keeping Up With Nagorno-Karabakh
On 10th November 2020, deep in the Caucasus Mountains that lie between Asia and Europe, the guns fell silent. Six weeks of bloody conflict between […]
Death of a Terrace House Star: Politics and Free Speech in Japan
The sudden death of Kimura Hana, a professional wrestler, and cast on the popular Japanese reality show Terrace House: Tokyo 2019-20, has thrown light on […]
What Italy tells us about life after Covid
Italy, a country usually associated with wine, pizza and pasta, now mostly appears on the news for being the first severely hit country by […]
LGBT+ in Vietnam: Acceptance in Conformity or Furthering Heteronormativity
When The Last Journey of Madam Phung, a critically acclaimed documentary about transvestite troupe singers in Vietnam, came out in 2014, I was deeply moved […]
Irregular Residents in Japan: Forgotten Tales of Human Suffering
“Not knowing what is happening makes you crazy and terrified because you don’t know what to believe,” said an immigrant detained in Japan’s immigration detention […]
A Kingdom without a King: The disappearance of Kim Jong Un and its implications
The global spread of the coronavirus continues to instill fear and panic. However, we have to brace ourselves for another issue that might have significant […]
Nexus between the Tokyo Olympics, Coronavirus, and Politics
The COVID-19 pandemic has been making global headlines. Also commonly referred to as the coronavirus, the rapid spread of this newly identified virus has been […]