autumnal mazesoba with porcini and beef in mushroom cream sauce

「私は総じて読書を好む。知性を鍛え魂を強くすることのできるようなことが見出される類いの読書は、私の最も好むものである。とりわけ私は、才気の優れた人と共に読書することに、無上の満足を見出す。こうすると、読んでいることについて刻々考え、考えたことをもとにして世にも楽しく、かつ有益な会話が成り立つからである」 (「ラ・ロシュフコー自画像」『ラ・ロシュフコー箴言集』より)

「ちゃんとわかる人にとっては、わけのわからない人たちにわからせようとするよりも、彼らに負けておくほうが骨が折れない」 (「箴言448」『ラ・ロシュフコー箴言集』より)

Once again, the "conspiracy parties" revealed themselves In yesterday's Miyagi governor race, the LDP-backed incumbent Murai won by 1.8% against the Sanseito-backed Wada whose supporters spread misinfo about Murai Exit polls show Sanseito, DPP and Reiwa have the highest share of Wada supporters

Ishiba will hold a press conference at 6pm Some say he’s going to resign and retire, others that he will resign but also make a bid for re-election in a leadership election We won’t know for sure until 6pm

Apparently the rebels have sufficient numbers to call an early leadership election Ishiba just met with Suga and Koizumi Now the options are 1) resign before the 8th; 2) call a snap general election; 3) make a bid for leadership re-election but if he loses call a snap; 4) not run but back Koizumi

Do please read it, a lot of effort went into this piece

My piece for Chihei is available in bookstores on Friday!

@becedo.bsky.social chapter 9 www.routledge.com/Transnationa...

Aso met with Kamiya today news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/bbe...

「注文書のない古書目録」配布中（8月分更新） | 八木書店グループ company.books-yagi.co.jp/archives/new...

Sanseito is experiencing growing pains as they don’t have enough aides for their 14 new diet members According to Gendai, the candidate pool — ex-aides to LDP candidates who lost — are reluctant to apply because they fear having to draft insane diet questions www.nikkan-gendai.com/articles/vie...

ICE detains a violinist who has played with the Utah Symphony and is involved with the Chamber Music Society of Salt Lake. Apparently this is what Trump means when he's saying countries aren't sending their best:

so okay! first piece out from me at Common Wealth "Beyond Bidenomics: On what is living and what is dead in economic policy" the argument is that progressives should take credit for the successful parts of the pandemic policy response and build the next Thing www.common-wealth.org/perspectives...

「戦没者の命は尊い」 →命は尊いという意味では正しい。ただし、無謀な戦争のための犠牲となった戦没者の「死」は、決して尊いものではない 「先人の礎の上に今の平和がある」 →これも正しい。ただし、ここの「先人」は戦没者ではなく、焼け野原から新たな礎を築き、復興に努めた生存者たちである

Ishiba is similar to Abe in that his cabinet’s approval rating consistently stays above that of his party www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZ... Another similarity, of course, is that Abe also tried to stay on as PM after the Upper House election loss in 2007

An interview with Nikkei Asia on Sanseito. Full discolure: I didn’t actually realize this was going to be a long-form video and was mostly trying to hit sound bites. But good experience to be thrown into the deep end these past few weeks of Sanseito coverage. youtu.be/s3K1lzia4eM?...

finally the world is catching up to japanese marxist analysis ca. 1930

東急沿線、参政党の得票目立つ　JR中央線は国民民主や女性が躍進 www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQO... 「東急沿線の比較的富裕な層は自民党に政治とカネの問題などが浮上すると、同党以外の保守政党に投票する傾向がある」 鉄道沿線や団地などの空間と政治の相関関係を分析する試みである「空間政治学」。 東京都議選と参院選の投票行動を読み解きます。

imagine being a yt boomer dude named ed who naturalises as japanese and in the process decideds to officially change his name to edo written as “wise man” (慧人) cringissimo

New piece by Edo Naito on Sanseito does very little other than aid the normalization of far-right views. He also calls this characterization of the party 'snarky, which feels like a dismissal of the time and effort me and others have put into our research 🧵 www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2...

It is worth remembering that, while the former factions leading the rebellion may appear to have the majority with 169 out of 297 votes, they were the very forces that supported Takaichi in the last leadership election Yet she still lost — because former factions can’t whip votes like they used to

参院選の期間中、Xなどで広がった「ロシアからの選挙介入」を疑う指摘。 名前があがったまとめサイトは、取材に関与を否定。分析したセキュリティ会社も「収益目的で運営されていた可能性が高い」と指摘します。 一方、凍結された匿名インフルエンサーのアカウントを調査した結果、「ボット」の存在も浮かび上がりました。 専門家は「確証が取れる前に推測で過剰に反応してしまうこと」にリスクがあるとしつつ、工作・介入の危機感を訴えています。 取材と分析の結果をまとめた記事はこちらです。 https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20250726/k10014874061000.html

The Yomiuri conducted a survey of LDP's prefectural chapters over whether they think Ishiba should resign and claimed that the Osaka chapter answered "yes" The Osaka chapter is going to formally put in a complaint to the newspaper for misrepresenting their stance which should in fact be "undecided"

To illustrate the point further: Funada Hajime, a diet member in the lower house and a member of the former Motegi faction, just announced that he supports Ishiba staying on as PM and criticised the rebels for squabbling in a time of national crisis www.shimotsuke.co.jp/articles/-/1...

Takaichi and Fujii are due to publish a co-authored book (in fact, an edited transcript of a 6-hour discussion between them) on 20th September The book’s working title is “Japan First” www.hanmoto.com/bd/isbn/9784...

MoF conspiracy theory books still selling well Morinaga Takurō (bottom row) and the remnants of the Abenomics-era reflationists (top row, they now primarily write for the rightwing magazines Hanada and WiLL) This shelf is near the entrance of the 3rd largest bookshop in Tokyo (Marunouchi Maruzen)

anything can happen

Movements within LDP since yesterday: > Hayashi met with his former Kishida faction fellows where high-ranking LDP members like Onodera and Matsuyama were also present > Aso and Motegi (leaders of two former factions) discussed post-Ishiba gameplans > Takaichi met with her group of supporters 1/2

NHK: Following Ishiba’s meeting with former PMs Aso, Suga and Kishida, he told the press that any and all media reports of his resignation are false and showed his resolve to stay on so as not to create a political vacuum in these trying times www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20...

Nikkei: “The Prime Minister told people close to him that ‘there are issues that remain to be settled in the tariff negotiations’ and that he hasn’t decided on whether he will stay on or resign.” www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZ... A key remaining issue is the steel and aluminium tariffs, still at 50%

trump got played so hard by ishibased gigachad

【速報】ロッキング・オン創刊の渋谷陽一さん死去

Why Japanese businesses accounts won't leave Twitter (from a viral post back in February) anond.hatelabo.jp/20250214185341

The more I read these overly earnest attempts to understand and come to terms with low info voters, the more convinced I become that it's kind of fruitless digital.asahi.com/articles/AST... Is the lesson here that going viral on YouTube and flattering people's existing worldview is the way to go?

If you add up the vote share of the four "conspiracy parties" you get 60% for the teenagers 63% for the 20s (zoomers) 58% for the 30s (millennials) Though remember that this is just exit poll vote share—in absolute terms, the under-40s are a demographic minority in Japan (only around 26mn voters)

@broomsticknpen.bsky.social re: benefit of the doubt

The parties that push the MoF conspiracy theory are Reiwa, Sanseito, Kokumin and Hoshuto They’re what I call “the conspiracy parties” and they’ve all gained seats today As the article mentions, the MoF theory also intersects with anti-vax and anti-immigration theories, also salient this election

My piece on Sanseitō for Nikkei Asia. I've been working on this with @robfahey.net for a while now. I just presented on our working paper at IPSA in Seoul, and a peer-reviewed paper is coming out soon. There's also an exciting Japanese project on its way as well. asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/Sans...

monday

The antique bookseller Subunso currently has several first editions of Kant's works for sale: • Critik der reinen Vernunft (¥3.85mn) • Ausgabe B (¥440k) • Grundlegung (¥275k) • Prolegomena (¥165k) They also have Hegel’s Phänomenologie (¥880k) and Wissenschaft der Logik (¥330k for three-volume set)

小学館と光文社にフリーランス保護法違反で初勧告　報酬支払い巡り（無料記事） www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQO... フリーライターやカメラマンらに報酬額や支払期日を示さなかったなどとして、公正取引委員会が出版大手2社に再発防止を勧告しました。 曖昧な条件で仕事を発注する業界の商慣行が浮き彫りになった形で、公取委は業界団体にも法令順守を要請します。 #ニュース

now even the intolerant can drink calpis

ブリ出世丼 yellowtail family massacre bowl

reminiscing about that time i spotted a mistake in hegel scholarship thats been repeated non-stop for 200 years threadreaderapp.com/thread/12920...

ochazuke breakfast

as of today, many of the books published between 1990 and 1995 already digitised by the NDL have now been made available to view via their transmission service

国会図書館によりデジタル化されていた1990〜95年に出版された書籍の多くが、本日付で個人送信で閲覧可能になっている 例として小宮隆太郎『貿易黒字・赤字の経済学』1994年: dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/13139605

babe are you ok you've barely touched your unread books