the rhetorical positioning in all these speeches of "one minute they were happy and living their best lives, the next: A-bomb" seems like a big elision of what life was already like on Aug 5 in Hiroshima
05.08.2025 23:37 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@nathanielmsmith.bsky.social
Anthropologist of Japan @ Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto. 立命館大学国際関係学部准教授。Writing/research on rightwing movements/politics/culture, US-Japan relations, and urban studies.
the rhetorical positioning in all these speeches of "one minute they were happy and living their best lives, the next: A-bomb" seems like a big elision of what life was already like on Aug 5 in Hiroshima
05.08.2025 23:37 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0honks double-tap is a bonus. you really only have to lower your head just a bit while raising your eyebrows
31.07.2025 12:36 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0that had a lot of useful bits! this part, though, was surprising to me
30.07.2025 13:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20...
Kyoto in at number five 🙃
He’s a busy dude
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New at Observing Japan: As Japan’s politics heads into a consequential stretch, I tried to think about the deeper drivers of the conflict that is likely to drive Ishiba from office.
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the “no written agreements” thing is getting pummeled on the political wide shows. most opinions are very skeptical and offer it up as another reason the LDP is flat footed in the election aftermath
26.07.2025 02:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0had a plan to get further on up but got enveloped by a dark and rumbling cloud at the top (Kamikochi down in the valley below)
26.07.2025 02:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Nishi-Hotaka yesterday
26.07.2025 02:42 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Amid rising starvation in the Gaza Strip, an Israeli government minister said on Thursday that Israel had no duty to alleviate hunger in the territory and was seeking to expel its population. Amichay Eliyahu, a far-right lawmaker who leads Israel’s Heritage Ministry, said in a radio interview that “there is no nation that feeds its enemies,” adding that “the British didn’t feed the Nazis, nor did the Americans feed the Japanese, nor do the Russians feed the Ukrainians now.” He concluded that the government was “rushing toward Gaza being wiped out,” while also “driving out the population that educated its people on the ideas of ‘Mein Kampf,’” an antisemitic text written by Adolf Hitler.
pretty telling comment here. Britain and America absolutely did feed and clothe Nazi and Japanese POWs during WWII. and they provided food and supplies to occupied territories as the war was won. the Hunger Plan by contrast was a Nazi thing
24.07.2025 19:20 — 👍 3014 🔁 910 💬 97 📌 77in case anyone needs some refreshment during this hot hot spell
24.07.2025 02:57 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0NYT’s Bret Stephens says it’s not genocide because Israel could kill much faster but instead opts to starve Palestinians to death while only mass killing the ones who try to get food. oh and that’s not his preferred definition genocide
23.07.2025 14:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Sanseito also has a weird policy grab bag that (even) before it got bigger brought together an array of outsider-y constituencies
23.07.2025 11:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0suit yourself!
23.07.2025 11:03 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0現代版のワッパ騒動
21.07.2025 00:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0love how the NHK takes us all the way down, deep into the rootiest of grass roots support
20.07.2025 14:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0she's been around right wing circles for a long time
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Don’t worry, even though the rainy season ended here three weeks ago it’s been raining ever since
18.07.2025 11:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0two more lil strokes and ー becomes シ
16.07.2025 07:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Nicely done! I’ve only done a few sections here and there but would love to tackle the whole shebang one day …. after leech season tho
16.07.2025 07:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I give thanks to the tourist hordes and businesses who appreciate them. Excellent udon joint Omen offers a shōjin tsuyu. Easy to do and meets needs for veggie/vegan/other visitors yet so many venerable spots go out of their way to have nothing on offer
16.07.2025 07:48 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0haven't read the article, but I'm glad Americans have finally caught the namba aruki wave
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A 21-year-old Florida man was beaten to death by Israeli settlers while visiting family in the West Bank.
12.07.2025 18:02 — 👍 1725 🔁 881 💬 104 📌 115pollution and being in a valley that traps it
01.07.2025 13:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0if any prospective tourists need another reason to not visit Kyoto — the air quality is horrendous!
01.07.2025 11:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0as a resident of Kyoto, it’s rather refreshing to visit Tokyo and see so many Japanese people out and about
28.06.2025 04:13 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Kushimoto, with the Hashiguiiwa backlit by the sunrise.
22.06.2025 00:19 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0