Japan
Scatalogically Speaking
A month in Japan, where the bathroom experience is beyond superlative, makes one wonder how Japan and India could have diverged in such a dramatic fashion when it comes to potty culture
The Demise of the World’s Oldest Man
Most ‘oldest living persons’ happen to be residents of Japan, which at last count was home to over 58,000 people aged over 100
Narendra Modi: The global pragmatist
Seven features of Modi’s non-doctrinaire foreign policy that is taking India from non-alignment to multi-alignment
The Samurai Spirit
A tragedy of gigantic proportions can also be an inflexion point for a country with an innate urge to bounce back. So it could be for Japan
Hiroshima’s Child
Growing up, Miyuki Kamimura didn’t hear stories of gnomes and fairies. His was a childhood with tales of people with half-faces and burnt skin. We learn of life in the shadow of Hiroshima
Breaking the Rajini Myth
Here’s why, despite tales of the actor’s cult status in Japan, producers of his latest film Robot will think twice before venturing there.
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