A thing that comes to mind while watching Hakone Ekiden: if you trace the coastline of Kanagawa prefecture, you can go from Yokohama (横浜) to 横須賀 and then eventually hit…”Hamasuka” (浜須賀). 🙃

Oh no…Aoyama has fallen behind….

My New Year’s Day morning ritual: makingお雑煮 along with marinated smoked salmon (both mom’s recipe) and きな粉餅.

Happy snowy New Year from Boston! 新年明けましておめでとうございます！さてお雑煮を作らねば。

American hotel rooms why can’t you just have a hot water maker for me to make some tea or pour-over coffee challenge.

Interesting mixed medium approach to this Asahi feature on opium and Japanese occupied Manchuria: www.asahi.com/special/manc...

For those interested in the diary of Admiral Hyakutake Saburo: the third and final volume is now out. www.iwanami.co.jp/book/b101533...

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

Really nice to start the weekend with a gut-punch of an ending to an early morning (EST) Arsenal game. Sigh...

Of all the locations where they could have done something so obscene, this might be one of the most profane. These people hate America in every sense that matters.

“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.” www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social

BUT Japan would need to win the group if it doesn't want to crash into Brazil in the knockout round. 😂

Group F: Netherlands, Japan, Tunisia, and Euro playoff B winner (Ukraine, Poland, Albania, or Sweden) Not awesome but not horrible either?

This is the essence of the story: three billionaires with no understanding of higher education are seeking to force Harvard to pay a bribe.

I dunno…I just feel like there are far more important and interesting things in this world to write about than yet another made-up moral panic about the universities but, wow, some folks just can’t get enough of them, can they?

We're back on this again? We're back on this again. Fine. 1) Accommodations are fine and good because they create a predictable process for students who need help and for professors to understand how to accommodate their needs in a predictable way

New book: Jon Pitt, "Botanical Imagination: Rethinking Plants in Modern Japan" (Cornell University Press). cornellpress.manifoldapp.org/projects/bot...

Not sure which is more inconceivable: that Salem's city seal is what it is even today or that the historian defending it (or the article in fact) fails to mention the word "opium" even once, even as the family who traded it (Peabodys) commissioned the seal! www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/27/m...

Me after I read the comment:

私もギョプりたい。

Way too many things these days are just...beyond parody.

Blair being the replacement is 😘

Seems like every day brings reminders of just how thoroughly NYT-brained so many US-based Prestigious Academics™️ are. Frankly depressing, even if it’s not surprising.

The @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social has been on fire lately, and this is oped is no exception. (And worth noting as an aside that no LLM could produce an article of this power and precision). www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

I know we're all used to just taking it for granted that GOP politicians are tied up in kooky far-right church circles, and many of them are, but it's genuinely an outlier for Hegseth to be so into this particular weirdo's tiny extremist sect. He's fringe even for the religious right.

Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.

when I hear Starmer speak about immigration and race he's spitting in the face of the Labour voters I knew growing up in Manchester, who put themselves on the line against the National Front - and often the police - in the 1970s and 1980s.

I am so so sorry that Alice Wong has left. I didn’t know her well, but I knew her for a long time and had many convos - and her words, her advocacy, and her humor meant so much for so many. And in classic Alice fashion she generously left us all a note. Safe travels, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social. 一路走好

YES WE CAN!!!!

It’s extremely rich to be gaslit by actual journos that this “isn’t a real story” while the NYT constantly makes non-stories into stories (THE ENTIRE COVERAGE OF MANDANI’S)

Not the main point here, but this is exactly why Tokyo (or other allies) can't take anything for granted. You and your interests are not the priority, and if this wing grows in importance, that's only more true.

I grew up among Christians and missionaries in Japan, some of whom were intensely antagonistic to other religions, but I’ve never heard of anyone getting anywhere near “anointing” or otherwise defacing shrines and temples. Like, that would have been so obviously beyond the pale. But NYT of course…

Looking forward to getting yet another Dem fundraising text and me typing STOP in 3, 2, 1…

I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable. We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina. A vote for this bill is a mistake.

Black American soldiers literally dug these WWII graves. Traumatic. To acknowledge that fact at a cemetery they helped construct is something the Heritage Foundation cannot accept. As Veterans Day approaches, never forget that this country both compels and disrespects Black military service. Always.

JJS invites you to the following live, online event: Workshop on Submitting a Manuscript to JJS. Dec 3, 2025, 09:45 AM EST Coeditors Sabine Frühstück and Morgan Pitelka will present about things to keep in mind when preparing a manuscript. Register in advance: unc.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

These guys and their fans only know how to break things. They can break a lot of things before enough people care enough to stop them, but that will happen eventually

バーニー・サンダーズも「急進左派」なのだろうか。(笑)

テレ朝さんもマムダニ=「急進左派」だそうです。「民主党左派」なら全然違和感ないのに、なんでわざわざ今回の選挙戦に関する英語の文脈ではそもそもあまり出てこなかった(というか、英語のどの訳語に当てはまるのかさえ定かではない)を「急進左派」というレッテルを貼りたがるのだろうか。恣意的なものを感じざるを得ないのですよね。 youtu.be/ErGpmFp9hhc?...

Congratulations to my wonderful MIT neighbor and colleague @calculatedvalues.bsky.social!!!

「急進左派」…ですか。冒頭に出てくる「『民主社会主義者』を自称し」っていうのも単に所属政党の名前ですよね。はっきり言って記事の内容も解像度が低いな〜、というのが正直な感想。 Not especially impressed by this short Asahi piece that describes Mamdani as a "radical leftist" and is seemingly based on little more than Wall Streeter gripes. www.asahi.com/articles/AST...

This book is *amazing* - highly recommended.

I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.

The American electorate tonight

テッサ・モリスースズキ先生による、ラムザイヤー氏の在日コリアンに関する論文 (Social Capital and the Problems of Opportunistic Leadership: The Example of Koreans in Japan) の徹底的な反論とファクトチェックです。ラムザイヤー氏の元論文はThe European Journal of Law and Economicという学術誌のオンライン版に2021月2月に発表されたものでした。 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

On an extremely personal note, I’m just very happy for my young Dodgers-fan nephews, who live just outside of LA and got to witness not one, not two, but three Japanese players do what they did in the postseason!

will kim is still in ICE detention

>定着居住者は計81万人から計122万人まで増えた一方、刑法犯の検挙人数は6281人から3991人まで減っていた。人口1千人あたりの検挙者は7.7人から3.3人と半分以下になっている。来日外国人では、最も増加幅の大きい訪日旅行者は673万人から2507万人と4倍近くに増加したが、検挙人数は8505人から5735人まで減少した。 www.asahi.com/articles/AST...