Examines various current events along with historical facts
Examines various current events along with historical facts
The word diet originates from the ancient Greek word “δίαιτα” meaning lifestyle or way of life. Later, it was transferred to the medieval Latin word dieta, meaning daily work or amount of food, and the French word diete meaning food…
A sense of belonging is a fundamental emotion that people have when they seek social connections. It is a structure of consciousness that is the result of a psychological process in which people internalize the goals, value system, and role…
Television is a system for transmitting and reproducing images and sounds to distant locations, and its origins date back to 1873, when development of a device began in England to convert light and dark into electric strength and transmit it…
The Meyasubako (目安箱, suggestion box) was installed in front of the Tokugawa Shogunate’s Council of Ministers (評定所) in 1721. The Meyasubako, which was set up by the eighth shogun, Yoshimune (吉宗, 1716-1745), as one of the Kyoho Reforms (享保の改革), allowed anyone, except…
Oases are places where water miraculously springs up and greenery spreads across the vast, dry desert, which is a harsh environment for any living thing. Just the arrangement of the letters, the sound and resonance of the word “ou-éi-si-s” somehow…
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…
The word disaster is composed of dis and aster (from medieval Latin dis-astro), and refers to something bad that occurs away from a good star. The word is said to have originated from the ancient astrological belief that an unlucky…
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…
When cup-type instant ramen was first released, there were many TV commercials that showed how the three minutes from adding hot water to the time it is ready felt extremely long. The catchphrases used in these advertisements, such as “Wait…
Mysterious phenomena are a general term for phenomena that cannot be explained by modern scientific knowledge or are scientifically irrational, including psychic phenomena, fortune telling, UFOs, and paranormal powers. Mysterious phenomena are also called supernatural phenomena, paranormal phenomena, the occult,…
The magic hour is a term referring to the twilight period that can be experienced for about several tens of minutes after sunset or before sunrise. During this time, the light from the sun, which is the source of light,…
Ingaōhō (因果応報) means that good or bad deeds in a previous life or in the past are the cause, and good or bad results are brought about in the present as retribution. The word karma is often used in this…
“Never forget your beginner’s mind,” was the phrase that Zeami (世阿弥, c1363~c1443), who perfected Noh (能), preached as the secret of the (performing) arts. The phrase appears in Kakyo (花鏡, 1402), the first volume of Fushikaden (風姿花伝, 1424), a treatise…
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…
Detailed investigations after the fact have determined that the cause of death from the Spanish Flu, which claimed the lives of approximately 50 to 100 million people between 1918 and 1919, was vaccine-related. The rulers knew that vaccines, which were…
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…
Seppuku (Harakiri) is the act of cutting one’s own stomach with a short sword in order to die with dignity and honor, and was used by samurai (bushi) as a method of suicide or execution, and many people may have…
Since modern times, the ideal structure of the relationship between individuals and the state has been one in which public nature is established based on the individual’s sense of belonging to the state, that is, the idea of the state.…
Many people may know it from Yakuza movies, but in scenes where rival factions kill each other during a conflict, “killing” is expressed as ” Tama wo toru.” Tama is Tamashii, so it means “to take away one’s soul.” The…
Nietzsche noted that “sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.” Indeed, the ordinary people may be deluded by what they see around them and are influenced by what they see, and living…
Lord Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild, has passed away at the age of 87, his family announced on February 26, 2024. As for the optimistic claims on the internet that his death will mean the end of the Rothschilds, it…
Since time immemorial, the commoners have been subjected to fear and anxiety by the rulers, even if they have given up their freedom or redemption, or paid a price to gain their freedom or nullify their guilt. This is simply…
Manipulating belief systems is one of the most crafty but effective tactics used by the rulers to control the commoners. Rather than completely denying the spirituality and consciousness of the commoners, the rulers pretend to understand them while subtly suppressing…
Even though it was the first day of the new year, the satan-worshipping rulers held a sacrificial ritual that could be called 611 (Reiwa 6, January 1st), reminiscent of 911 (WTC tower demolitions) and 311 (Sanriku earthquake-tsunami). Furthermore, the perpetrators did…
The cunning rulers cast spells of doom and gloom to keep the commoners in a state of fear and paranoia in order to subjugate them, and convincing them that all the rulers’ schemes are for the commoners’ good. Its curse…