Examines various current events along with historical facts
Examines various current events along with historical facts
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is a suspenseful epic science fiction film depicting the events that occur during a manned mission to Jupiter in the year 2001 accompanied by HAL 9000, an AI (artificial intelligence) that controls the spaceship, in…
Zatoichi is a kyōkaku (侠客, a wanderer with a chivalrous spirit) from the Edo period, and tells the story of a blind masseur (座頭, zato) named Ichi (市, the blind man’s common name) who travels around the country, meeting and…
Tenshin Okakura (岡倉天心, 1863-1913) a Meiji era thinker, introduced in “The Book of Tea (茶の本, 1906)” that the tea ceremony embodies the deep spiritual culture of Japan, and is not simply the act of drinking tea or a ceremonial procedure.…
Wine is an alcoholic beverage made by fermenting grape juice, and the elements that determine a wine brand include geographical classification such as producing country, region, and vineyard, the winery, the type of grape variety used (there are said to…