When you think of Yoko Ono, what immediately pops into your mind? Yup, me too. You see, humanity has this uncanny knack of thinking almost completely in superlatives. And so unfortunately, (though I speak not from personal experience, obviously) the problem with being famous yourself but then being married to quite possibly one of the [...]
Anybody who has visited Japan will have seen Fukuzawa Yukichi on nearly a daily basis, though they may not know it. His serious face and stalwart image is indeed involved in many everyday transactions. Even if you haven’t set foot even close to Japan yet, then the first few pages of a textbook on Japanese [...]
As you will know by now, I am rather fond of a mini-series or two, therefore Caught*Red-handed is being press-ganged (I mean, proudly presents) yet another..有名！ Yuumei is an ongoing series that will touch on both obvious and unobvious personalities from Japan, and those that have been influenced by this magnificent country. It will document, [...]