Japan

Puccini’s ‘Madama Butterfly’: Los Angeles bilingual production travels to Houston

April 16, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon

With a new libretto written by POP Artistic Director Josh Shaw and Houston’s Opera in the Heights Artistic Director Eiki Isomura, the production presents the Madame Butterfly story as if it actually occurred in Nagasaki sometime...

How Fukushima nukes are still killing our climate, our planet, ourselves

April 3, 2019 By Harvey “Sluggo” Wasserman

Eight years ago this week apocalyptic radiation clouds began pouring out of Fukushima, Japan.

Eight years after Fukushima nuclear meltdown, workers still facing radiation risk

February 22, 2019 By Shimbun Akahata

At the crippled nuclear plant, the number of workers coping with the aftermath of the 2011 accident is still more than 4,000 per day.

‘Shoplifters’: New Japanese feature film shows how people survive

December 12, 2018 By Michael Berkowitz

Although it seems to roll out modestly as a simple tale of marginal people, its conclusion will force you to rethink central tenets of how individuals relate.

This week in history: Pearl Harbor antecedents, the attack, consequences

December 7, 2018 By Eric A. Gordon

This remains relevant as we remember the attack and also the horrific internment of Japanese Americans that followed it.