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Welcome to Asia Pundits!
Asia Pundits will be launching in Mid-November and then publishing weekly from there on out. Until then, please have a look at our site and give us some feedback. Then go and get your ass into the...
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The Kansai Earthquake Remembered
It struck around 2:45 in the afternoon on what had been a beautiful spring day. I was nearing the end of my English teaching contract at a Middle School, about an hour outside Tokyo. I’d been in good...
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Don’t Let The Missile Fall Down on Me
Japan: I Wouldn't Do That if I Were You. North Korea is glad. Japan is mad. And everybody else is worried and sad. That seems to be the consensus of the International Herald-Tribune when it comes to...
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The Tongshinsa Parade: Drumming to heal old wounds
There was once a time when Japan and Korea didn’t hurl abuse, squabble over rocks in the sea or blast half-baked missiles over each other’s sovereign territory. In fact for most of their shared history...
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A Chinese New Year In Yokohama
This story/photos were written/taken a couple years ago. At the time I was irking out a living in the earthquake-laden land of Japan, teaching English in two countryside public middle schools....
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Yasukuni Shrine: My Grandfather Died For This Country
Yasukuni Shrine, located in the centre of Tokyo is undeniably beautiful and rather serene, at least from the outside. Why then, does this place of quiet worship enrage so many in northeast Asia...
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