Jens Wilkinson
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I am a translator living in Tokyo. I help moderate several lists on Japan, including the community, a group working on issues of discrimination. In addition, I am the designer of an international language called Neo Patwa, and have a blog here.
Latest posts by Jens Wilkinson
7 October 2007
Japan
Blogger Ampontan offers an essay on the history of a matsuri (festival) which changed after the war, and discusses the aims of festivals. Not serious politics, but it's an interesting view of how “traditions” can be born from specific conditions.
6 October 2007
5 October 2007
Japan
In a new blog, Neojaponisme, W. David Marx reports on suppressed reports of pedophilia against a well-known Japanese producer, Johnny Kitagawa. It's a good read on the state of the media in Japan.
1 October 2007
Japan
Who do you trust with your yen? Writing in Liberal Japan, blogger Matt Dioguardi points out an interesting irony: it would appear that the government has concluded that teenagers working in convenience stores are more trustworthy than government bureaucrats working in its own offices.
Japan: New Justice Minister wants “automatic” executions
New Justice Minister Hatoyama Kunio, upon taking office on September 25 (actually at his outgoing press conference, before he was reappointed to the position), stated that he supported creating a...
I do not support capital punishment, in this instance there have no other alternative. What...