I’ve started a million and one articles on Caught*Red-handed with one, simple sentence: ‘I love Japan’. In fact, it would be easier to count the posts that haven’t begun with me slavering all over my most favourite, beautiful, beautiful archipelago of islands. That said however, I learnt pretty early on in life that books should [...]
Elections the world over are bizarre spectacles of bravado, ego, hope, victory, power, change, and money. A showcase of all that is good, and all that is bad about society, brought to the fore on a silver platter, on which the masses can vote. Some may argue that the power to vote is the single-most [...]
Being male it’s easy to disregard the struggle that women have faced. For the majority of recorded history, the ‘dominant gender’ has ruled over this world, however in just a few decades, due to implausible veracity and staunch self-belief, the outlook for women has changed beyond all recognition. In Japan, election fever is hotting up [...]