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“Bullet Train” Is a Trip to Manic Hell

“Bullet Train” Is a Trip to Manic Hell

By Ishaan Rai September 1, 2022

★★★☆☆ If you want to see Brad Pitt beat people up on a train in Japan, you’re in the right place.  “Bullet Train,” released Aug. 5, is the result of Hollywood’s top action...

AMY LI FOR THE HOYA Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono (SFS 86) called for a multinational effort to defend the current political atmosphere from challenges to its democratic values at an event in Gaston Hall Sept. 28.

Japanese Foreign Minister Urges International Support of Democratic Values

By Emily Leng October 2, 2018

Democratic countries around the world must collaborate to contribute to protecting a liberal world order, Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono (SFS ’86) said at an event Sept. 28 in Gaston Hall. Before...

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Movie Review: ‘Isle of Dogs’

By Megan Shapiro April 18, 2018

★★★★★ “Isle of Dogs,” Wes Anderson’s ninth feature film and second movie using stop-motion animation, is just as charming and visually stunning as the rest of his critically acclaimed...

Friendship in Bloom: The Symbolism of Cherry Blossoms

Friendship in Bloom: The Symbolism of Cherry Blossoms

By Jasmine White April 7, 2017

On March 27, 1912, two women stood in West Potomac Park in Washington, D.C., and planted the first two cherry blossom trees in the United States. These two women, former first lady Helen Herron Taft...

VIEWPOINT: Lessons from Zen

VIEWPOINT: Lessons from Zen

By John Glavin March 17, 2017

There’s a particularly memorable scene in Eugen Herrigel’s Zen in the Art of Archery (German 1948; English 1956). Herrigel had come to Japan in 1921 to learn more about the practice of Zen. Once there,...

What Do Japan And Leos Have In Common?

What Do Japan And Leo’s Have In Common?

By Jenna Clifford and Jenna Clifford February 10, 2016

His name is Chef Yamada! And he comes with a chance to be on Japanese television!!! (may or may not be true, but whatever...) Yes, this is real life. In partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture,...

University Partners with Consortium for Comparative East Asian Studies

By Toby Hung July 1, 2015

The university announced today that it will participate as a partner school in the Three-Campus Consortium for Comparative East Asian Studies program, a study abroad initiative in which students study...

Japan Weighs $5M Chair Endowment

By City News Editor March 31, 2015

The Japanese government is considering donating $5 million to the Walsh School of Foreign Service to fund an endowed chair in Japanese Studies, who will teach both undergraduate and graduate students. The...

Litke: Japanese Pitcher Has MLB Future

By Daniel Litke November 14, 2014

Behind a strong pitching performance from Kenta Maeda, the Japanese national baseball team shut out the MLB All Stars 2-0 Wednesday to kick off the 2014 Suzuki All-Star Series. The 2014 Suzuki All-Star...

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Goldman Sachs Chief Japan Equity Strategist Kathy Matsui gave a lecture on “Womenomics,” debunking a series of myths about women in the workplace in Japan and calling for equality.

Economist Talks Equity in Japan

By Jack Bennett October 10, 2014

Kathy Matsui, the chief Japan equity strategist at Goldman Sachs, discussed Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s economic policy, “Abenomics,” in the Fisher Colloquium on Wednesday in an event presented...

Tokyo’s Ambiguous Aesthetics

By Celeste Chisholm July 3, 2014

Beauty has been chronically difficult to define. Nebulous by nature, its form floats adrift like clouds across a capricious sky, lacking clear borders, resisting prediction. For three months now, I have...

Learning to Love the Cultural Void

By Celeste Chisholm June 19, 2014

What does it mean to integrate? In Japanese, I often encounter the word tokekomu — to melt into something, to become a part of it as it becomes you. The metaphor seems to imply a mutual concession,...

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