Examines various current events along with historical facts
Examines various current events along with historical facts
In period dramas set in the Edo period (1603-1868), the standard job of ronin (浪人 or 牢人, masterless samurai) is, above all, reupholstering umbrellas. Many people have probably seen the scene where a ronin brushes glue onto a bamboo frame and…
Godzilla is a kaiju. Godzilla is a gigantic creature that spits destructive rays, is unfazed by the barrage of high-tech weaponry, and marches forward while mercilessly destroying even the most sturdy modern urban buildings and infrastructure in its path. Although…
Sakoku (locked or closed country) refers to the isolationist policy implemented during the reign of the third Tokugawa Shogunate shogun, Iemitsu (1604~1651), in the Edo period (1603~1868), which restricted Japanese travel abroad and the arrival of foreign ships with the…
Awareness of the background to the artificially created virus turmoil of 2019 and the possibility of a new artificial virus genocide being carried out as early as the fall of 2024 has at least awakened commoners to the need to…