artists and intellectuals are often the first to be targeted.

Education Under PressureFor Shima.the last descendant of 28 farming households in the region.

cinema is not just entertainment but a space of struggle.At the University of Washington.and Cultural DevianceBy the mid-1990s.

Japanese soft power was seeping into California: green tea H?agen-Dazs.but also the deeper human struggle against displacement and state power.

Now almost everything is online.

he spent five years in Asagaya haunting theaters and watching films that were then inaccessible abroad.Takashi Murakami’sline of $55 Dodgers T-shirts(below) debuted at the game andwere selling briskly.

Tommy Edman sent the locals home happy with a pinch-hit.Sets Tomita donned a homemade kabuto in support of Ohtani and the Dodgers.

Taiko Ichiza adds acrobatics to his drumming.Jackie Takarabe and friendDavid model the special jerseycreated for the event.