I must apologize for the absence of the past several days.Between moving to Greater Boston and being transfixed by events in the Caucasus, I've found it hard to write about developments in Japanese politics.Blogging will resume momentarily.
Tag: blog business
Back to blogging, for now
I have returned from my trip to western Japan (Ehime and Hiroshima prefectures).Like m'colleague at Shisaku, I climbed a mountain — Ishizuchi, which at 1982m is not nearly as impressive as MTC's hike up Kitadake. (Apparently bloggers on holiday flee to mountains.)In any case, returning to the blog after a week away is as good …
Mr. Fukuda on holiday
Fukuda Yasuo, his (un)popularity barely affected by his hosting of the G8 summit last week, celebrated his seventy-second birthday Wednesday by starting a six-day vacation.Asahi notes that this is early for a prime minister to take his summer holiday, and speculates that since the prime minister does not have plans to travel far, there might …
Republic of Bloggers
It's two months after the fact, but readers can listen to my comments on political blogging in Japan delivered at the Korea Society of New York's "Republic of Bloggers" event in April.Click here to listen. (I'm the fourth speaker.)
To Kansai readers
I will be in Osaka this weekend. Please send an email to Observingjapan@gmail.com if you are interesting in meeting up.
"Unsustainable Inequities"
After nearly six months of work, during which it has passed from the hands of one leading US foreign policy periodical to another, an article questioning the fundamentals of the US-Japan alliance that I have co-authored with Douglas Turner has finally seen the light of day.It is available online here at Policy Innovations, a publication …
Alliance cooperation
The HMCS Toronto, in New York for Fleet Week 2008, seen from my window this morning:
Summer in Japan
I will be in Japan again as of next week, this time for longer. I'll be staying the summer, writing (possibly working on a book) and perhaps giving talks in the Tokyo area.Stay tuned.
Erratum?
A reader informs me that the pictures mentioned in this post are most likely not pictures of the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, but are instead pictures of the aftermath of the Great Kanto earthquake of 1923.No less moving, in light of today's news.
May contribution to FEER Forum
You can find my latest contribution to FEER Forum here, discussing the impending demise of the Fukuda government.
Tobias S. Harris 