I don’t care if you like Apple products or not. You have to acknowledge, however, the brilliant branding of Apple products and Steve Jobs’ uncanny sense of style, design, innovation, and ability to define the cutting edge. I love Apple products not only because they are damn good and damn stylish; I’ve stuck with them [...]

A lot has been written about the emasculization of Japan and Japanese males after the war. First, a lot of males died in the war and under the new postwar Constitution women got a lot more rights. Japan has been the junior (= subordinate female) partner in the Japan-US Security Pact and in most international [...]

If you have nothing to lose and your life under occupation sucks, why not die a martyr? Most people think of a lifework to leave behind as a legacy (build a company, raise kids, write a bestseller, etc.); at least part of the motivation to be a suicide bomber stems from the same. The whole [...]