Green leaves of summer turn red in the fall To brown and to yellow they fade. And then they have to die, trapped within the circle time parade of changes. The world’s spinning madly, it drifts in the dark It swings through a hollow of haze, A race around the stars, a journey through The … More When the Night Came On, It Was Very Calm
This is a look into the impending election in Japan. Stories of the type you see below were more abundant a year ago. This is now. I saw this on the web, and thought I would share it with my U.S. friends. It deserves to be considered. The Fukushima radiation crisis is not over. Unless … More Grim Electoral Prospects / The Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Is Not Over!
The Japanese Diet will be dissolved in December 2012, and a new Diet will soon be elected. The collapse of the DPJ government has been foreseen for some time; the Noda administration has expended what political capital it had on pushing for an unpopular, politically regressive increase in Japan’s consumption tax. Ho hum. The center of … More New Party Backs Hague Treaty and Progressive Family Measures in Upcoming Japanese Election
Rui’s Birthday – Friday, November 16, 2012 “Takes more than guns to kill a man.” “Joe Hill” (Alfred Hayes & Earl Robinson, 1925) I had forgotten what day … More New Year’s Eve Memory, 2005 (Rui is 7 Years Old)
For Rui Boy 