Eighty years ago this past week, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and…
This week marks the 80th anniversary of President Harry Truman’s fateful decision to drop atomic bombs on the Japanese cities…
The rise of Japan’s Sanseitō party shouldn’t shock anyone paying attention. For years, the political class shrugged off rising unease…
Portraits of a Mother: A Novella and Stories By Shūsaku Endō (tr. Van Gessel) (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2025,…
Last week, President Trump announced plans to officially designate May 8, the date when the Germans signed the articles of…
With all the banter regarding tariffs on imports and while many sports aficionados were consumed with filling out their NCAA…
Voices of the Fallen Heroes and Other Stories By Yukio Mishima (Vintage International, 272 pages, $16) There has always been…
Rarely has a politician so completely destroyed his career in so little time. In the space of about six hours,…
I Bird droppings have never had particularly good press, ever since poor Tobit of the tribe of Nephtali, worn out…
