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Philosophy and crisis are linked. It is either a crisis of the self or crisis in a culture. Whenever things stop appearing natural and whenever we must prove ourselves or our way of life philosophy begins to come to the surface. Woe to the time when true philosophy comes forth, because it is a time of crisis.

[This is another translation of a conversation between Beat Takeshi and Takashi Murakami found in the book Two Art. Here Beat Takeshi talks about his thought process when making movies movies.] I am a Lone Otaku These days the otaku culture in Japan is getting to be really big. But I wonder, why is it [...]

This is an essay by renowned manga artist and thinker Kobayashi Yoshinori.(小林よしのり） One of the most fascinating and interesting personalities in Japan, he has always been willing to shock and go against the majority opinion. He has been called conservative, and super right wing by many in the western media, but that description doesn’t fit [...]

This is another translation from Idiot Economics, a new economics book out by author Takeuchi Kaoru.  He here dives into the mysterious world of just what money is. Idiot Economics If there is a worldwide recession, then where did all the money go? Takeuchi: We are in a worldwide recession right now right? As long [...]

This is a translation of a conversation between Beat Takeshi (Kitano Takeshi) and Takeshi Murakami. It was in the book Two Art. Beat Takeshi is a world renown director and also a superstar and major personality in Japan. Although jumping around at times he makes interesting points. Enjoy. Art is the god within each of [...]

(バカヤロー経済学） Idiot Economics is a new economics book out by author Takeuchi Kaoru. He invites the reader to go back to being elementary students again and try to learn economics from scratch.  One reason for this is that as he quickly admits he has little to no knowledge about economics himself. His specialty is in [...]

This is the continuation of Honda Torus thoughts about love. Here he discusses the beginnings of the idea of romantic love in Japan. Imported “marriages of love” The culture of romantic love and marriages of love were imported into Japan during the Meiji era.  When the creator of “Women’s studies magazine”, Yoshiharu Iwamoto, called the [...]