Tomomi Sasaki · September, 2011

Latest posts by Tomomi Sasaki from September, 2011

Black Scholars Who Make a Specialty of Asian Studies

  27 September 2011

The Black Tokyo blog writes about the rich history of Asia studies by African-American scholars. “I want to follow the path of Blacks that have made it possible for other Blacks to provide information on Asia, in my case Japan, from an Afro perspective.“

Japan: Anti-nuclear power demonstration on 911

  12 September 2011

Buddhika Weerasinghe has posted photos of the anti-nuclear power demonstration held in central Tokyo on September 11th. Several thousand people joined the demo, as can be seen in this video footage [ja] and 12 people were arrested. See also the official site [ja] for the demonstration.

Japan: Most rational, least traditional country?

  12 September 2011

Hashi at Tofugu blogs about the World Values Survey results that show that Japan is “one of the most rational, least ‘traditional’ countries out there” and tops the list of countries as having the strongest secular-rational values.