the-gnosis.com

[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 a translation of a part of a book by Akira Ikegami called Is Japan Really a Society with Large Social Disparity? This book is interesting in that it takes what the author perceives as Japanese common sense and tests whether it is true or not.  If I have time I intend to translate [...]

Sorry about the week break.  I finally have the next small part of Fumio Kaido’s Das Kapital Manga translated. Please click on the page numbers to get the full size version of the pages.  Enjoy!

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 [...]

I have finished translating the first part of the very long second chapter including the first commentary of Fumio Kaido’s manga version of Das Kapital.  For the first two parts check here and here.  Click on the page numbers to get the full size version.

(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 [...]

I have finally completed the rest of chapter 1 of Fumio Kaido’s manga version of Das Kapital.  Chapter one is basically a very short very quick summary of Marx’s life up to his writing of Capital. The first part of chapter 1 was posted previously here.  Click on the page number to get the full [...]

The following is one section of the book “Actually Very Scary Kanji” that I have translated into English. This section is about the character for prefecture, 県 (ken). 県　(Ken) In 1871 the “han”(è—©)* which had been in place at the time were dismantled and prefectures or “ken”(県) were established. This is called the “haihanchiken”(廃藩置県).  After [...]