Feature

- Posted October 14, 2018
- March of the Japanese Robot Writers
  
  by Richard Nathan
  Japan is renowned for embracing robot technology in the workplace and has enjoyed a long love affair with dolls and robots of all kinds, whether… Read more »
  - TOPICS:
  - AI
  - Osamu Tezuka
  - Robots
  - Science Fiction
- Posted September 18, 2018
- Holding Out For A Hero: Japan’s oddball rugby literature
  
  by Richard Nathan
  When Rugby, the all-out macho sport of the elite, officially arrived on Japanese shores in the 1890s, the country was experiencing a revolution-like period of… Read more »
  - TOPICS:
  - Kanji Hanawa
  - Soji Shimada
  - Rugby
  - Sports
- Posted May 12, 2018
- From Body Art to Literature: Zen and the Art of the Tattoo
  
  by Richard Nathan
  Everyone seems to want a tattoo these days. The numbers are staggering: More than a third of people between the ages of eighteen and thirty… Read more »
  - TOPICS:
  - Culture
  - Steve Jobs
- Posted April 4, 2018
- Primeval Trolls and Eating Disorders: Grim tales from Japan
  
  by Richard Nathan
  Nobody can escape childhood without some exposure to monsters, demons, witches, or trolls. Be they tales about the lovable ogre Shrek, the Devil, Harry Potter,… Read more »
  - TOPICS:
  - Roger Pulvers
  - Children's
  - Culture
  - Folk Tales
  - Women's Fiction