Awich's Queendom: Okinawan rapper rises toward global hip-hop royalty
Wu-Tang Clan's RZA chops the beats on new album set to drop in July
Great stuff by @andysharpy.bsky.social on this interview with Okinawan rap sensation #Awich, who I'm very excited to see at Dead Pop Festival next month.
Very nice to see @asia.nikkei.com expanding deeper into Japanese pop culture (and with superb insight from @mbmelodies.bsky.social as well).
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Cold War ghosts loom over Yoon's impeachment
South Korea's political schism is a battle of history rather than policy
Now that impeachment is a done deal, my thoughts on Cold War ghosts haunting the dueling protests in Korea last few months. Thanks to @asia.nikkei.com @andysharpy.bsky.social
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Oh. Andrei’s still around. Good to know.
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Nippon Steel's $15bn misstep on U.S. Steel shows all politics is local
Deal turmoil exposes danger of Japan Inc. underestimating political challenges
Whether in U.S. battleground states or other global hot spots, Japanese companies must prioritize political engagement alongside economic strategy.
The lesson is clear, Jonathan Grady writes, all politics is local.
asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/Nipp...
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Keio University, Hiyoshi campus
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Sunset/Mt Fuji to start my life on @bsky.app
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Japanese-to-English technical/industrial translator
日英 技術・産業 翻訳者
MIT historian of Modern Japan
MIT教員・近代日本史
https://history.mit.edu/people/hiromu-nagahara/
Currently researching: cultural history of diplomacy, Japanese Anglophones and Anglophiles
City-walker and photo-taker
Tokyo based localizer and author of Yokai Attack! The Japanese Monster Survival Guide. Certified kimono fitter. 着物着付け師範 https://linktr.ee/hirokoyoda
Political scientist at GSAPS, Waseda University. Formerly UW-Madison, Princeton, U.S. Department of State, Stop & Shop. Author of Empire of Hope; The Rules of Play; Think Global, Fear Local (all Cornell UP). Coeditor of Stanford Studies in Asian Security.
Tokyo-based journo, author of 'Japanization,' ex-Barron's & Bloomberg, pop culture junkie, wine lover not a fighter, believer in the virtues of wanderlust
Bloomberg News Global Defense Editor. Novelist, aviation geek, bartender, dad. Ex-NYT, Reuters. Grew up in Midwest, moved to Mideast. Views my own. Wrote a fun book about Chinese missiles: https://tinyurl.com/2p94pay6
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Japan Correspondent at Agence France-Presse. Interests: crime, subculture, fashion, anime. Views my own.📩 tomohiro.osaki@afp.com
Los Angeles bureau chief @FT
Ex-Tokyo, London, NYC & Atlanta, by way of Tallapoosa, Georgia
彭博新闻社驻北京记者。Bloomberg reporter in Beijing. All opinions are my own. ブルームバーグの記者。今北京で中国経済を見てます。以前東京で日銀と財務省担当のデスク。Australian, if rather tenuously at this point.
@bloomberg.com digital editor and reporter in tokyo
🤍✨📈📉my stories >> https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/ATLjSC5jbu8/marika-katanuma
Clean energy researcher @JapanNRG | Media specialist | Journo | Writer | Ex-@japantimes national correspondent | 📷 | Linguist | Japanologist | Views mine | 🎾
Languages: English, Japanese, Polish, French
Journalist/ジャーナリスト 🐺
Features writer at The Japan Times.
Previously Tokyo correspondent at The Wall Street Journal.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/author/219/alex-kt-martin/
Journalist at AFP news agency in Tokyo
historian of japan/korea/the environment | words: davidfedman.org | digital archive: JapanAirRaids.org | film: https://papercityfilm.com/
North Korea-focused journalist/researcher at www.38North.org and NorthKoreaTech. Senior Fellow, Stimson Center. On air as KJ6SDF. UK to US via Japan.
Founder of NK News/NK Pro and Korea Risk Group. From London, based in Seoul. Drum and bass music aficionado.
Multi award-losing journalist and European Cybersecurity Correspondent at @Reuters.com, via Hanoi, Seoul and Pyongyang. Now in London.
“A bum who wrote an ignominious jumble of stories”
- North Korea ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆
📞Signal ID: pearswick.01
💻: pearswick.press
Tokyo & Kyoto.
Writer/editor/gardener/cook, birthing person, mother of dogs, avowed enemy of the patriarchy. I'm no damn lady.
Ex-Dow Jones/MarketWatch/Reuters.
Mostly harmless.
