Eating Out In Tokyo: A Tourist’s Guide
It’s early afternoon when we finally work our way through the line at Ran Sushi to take seats at the bar, where the two chefs work deftly as they slice through fish at almost lightning speed,...
Category: Asia
Why must the East continue to be objectified? An Interview with Indonesian artist Eddy Susanto
Have you ever been exoticized? I have been exoticized by people and have exoticized other people quite a few times. People from South of Italy make jokes about people from North of Italy, and the...
Is Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken Racist?
Nobody can say that Angelina Jolie doesn't love her subjects. Watching Jolie's Unbroken, a WW2 drama about US soldier Louis Zamperini’s imprisonment in a Japanese labor camp, it was impossible not...
The Peshawar School Massacre: When Children Are Fair Game
Waqar-Ullah Khattak is a Pakistani teacher at an army-run school in the city of Peshawar. He was invigilating an exam in the morning when he and the school's other occupants by armed militants...
Elmer: Discrimination Through the Eyes of a Chicken
“I’m sorry, but I don’t think there’s a place in this company for you.” Jake Gallo heard this on his interview and he was so insulted, he flew into a rage that he had to be dragged out the...
Russia’s NATO Fears
In a muscular speech on March 18th before a joint session of the Russian parliament announcing the annexation of Crimea, Russian President Vladimir Putin invoked a deep sense of grievance about the...
Review: Snowpiercer
Before the Internet stole our ability to dream, school kids looked in wonder through the pages of beautifully illustrated textbooks, littered with hundreds of scientific predictions by 1970s...
The Death of Environmentalism in the Age of Denial
Last year, naturalist Sir David Attenborough got into trouble when he called humans “a plague on the earth.” Apparently, some folks get a bit peeved when you slip ‘plague’ and ‘humans’...
Fresh Romance: China’s New Dating Show “If You Are the One”
I have never been one for dating shows, but I do not seem to be able to stop watching China’s extremely popular If You Are the One. I am hardly alone in this amongst Australians, which is unusual...
Women Working Dangerously In Bangladesh’s Garment Factories: Who Will Make It Stop?
A year ago, on November 24, 2012, the garment industry's dirty little safety secret was thrust into the global spotlight: 112 people jumped to their deaths or were burned alive in a fire inside an...