Name: Robert Brady
Dateline: Shiga, Japan
Weblog: purelandmountain.com
Articles: 22
First Published: Tuesday, July 29, 2003
Last Published: Monday, March 5, 2007
Currently listing articles 22-1:
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Comfort Women Not Coerced, Says Abe— This flies in the faces of the many women who, often bringing shame on themselves and their families, continue their quest for justice.
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Gosh, Time, Thanks... I'd Also Like to Thank My Motherboard...— Needless to say I certainly never expected to be in the same company as Hitler and Khomeini...
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Turn Off the Media Bullies— Don’t most Americans believe in building community, rather than unleashing pitbulls?
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Checking on Your Elders: Just Leave the Water Running— There's nothing wrong with longevity, but I've had a glimpse of the future and I'm not sure I want to be there when it arrives.
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Preposterous Slander on the Land of the Rising You-Know-What— ...
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The Country Side of Life— When you move from the city into the country, a considerable number of municipally peripheral things suddenly come into your life in a big way,
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MY AMERICAN RETURNS THE POWER SAW— In that still some-decades-ago-US part of my mind where my American resides, I was expecting that basically suspicious response from an incipiently surly clerk
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MADA DA YO...— Every American who comes to Japan and sees children playing kakurenbo is deeply shocked, even more so an American who raises children here and watches
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Is There Immigration after Death?— In Japan, it seems, once a foreigner, eternally a foreigner. There are cultural pioneers from abroad who have been permanent residents of Tokyo for well
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Kansas Board of Education Much Less Evolved Than Previously Thought, Says Researcher— “In fact, some of these people have actually devolved during the 80 years since the Scopes ‘Monkey’ trial,” says Bill Thornton, chief DNA specialist with
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That Thing in the Middle of Your Face— One amazing phenomenon a Western visitor to Japan may not notice, mainly because the most amazing thing about it is that it doesn't happen, which
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Letter from S. Paine, Calling Democracy To Victory— My fellow patriots, we stand at a crossroads of American history, where we must decide the course of our country. If George W. Bush
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Looking for Japan— If you’re looking for Japan, you’ve certainly come to the right place at the right time. Just a couple of eras ago, a mere second
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Far from the Lemming Crowd— I'd refrained for years from using portable music while commuting to Osaka and back, not because nobody my age in Japan wears earphones in public,
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Slow food in the fast lane, or: You put that on your sushi?
— If you’ve spent any time in Japan and so have tasted genuine traditionally brewed shoyu (soy sauce), there is of course no returning to the
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Getting Home— Already it is clear that the innocent foreigner, in his rigid territoriality, his righteous sense of individual liberty, is no match for this mass progress.
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The Virtually Automotive Jello of the Civilized Whitebread Television Now— This explains that secret calling you've been feeling from out there in the dark beyond the edge of your career...
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Cubist Cuisine— For Picasso, the question of steak and potatoes was essentially architectural. In his earlier meals, the entire flavor range suggested a gastronomic palette of geometric
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IMAGINATION RAMBLE— To the disimagined, imagination is not essential to living or to life, may even be detrimental if practiced in excess. We have Hollywood to do
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Bobby Hatfield Sings Forever— Upon reading that Bobby Hatfield of the Righteous Brothers had died (he was born the same year as I), I went immediately to my musical
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National Treasures— In Japan, after some tofu and broiled fish, for dessert there is perhaps bean paste, inside or outside some white or pink or maybe (whoopee!)
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The Mystery of Raymond Chandler— For decades I have been Marlowe's silent sidekick as we traveled those dim noir corridors, those scented forests, those starlit lakesides and sunburned streets, those
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