Tag Archives: Japan

Mariko Oi: The dark side of Asia’s pop music industry

Chou Tzuyu

Chou Tzuyu found herself in the centre of controversy when she waved the Taiwan flag in a video

They are known as “idols” and their job is “to sell dreams”. For decades, the young pop stars of Japan and South Korea have been the envy of teenagers. Continue reading

Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 69 Years Later

AUGUST 07, 2014

By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan

“I hate war,” Koji Hosokawa told me as we stood next to the A-Bomb Dome in Hiroshima, Japan. The skeletal remains of the four-story building stand at the edge of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. Continue reading

Tienchi Martin-Liao:Two Ceremonial Acts, One Bad Omen

by Tienchi Martin-Liao / January 15, 2014 /
As history looms large, tensions flare up between China and Japan.


Xi Jinping and Sinzo Abe

Xi Jinping (L), President of the People’s Republic of China; and Sinzo Abe (R), Prime Minister of Japan. Photos:

There is a famous photograph from 1970 that depicts West German Chancellor Willy Brand kneeling Continue reading