Shuji Terayama

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“Allez, Les Brave Blossoms”: Japan’s Special Sporting Footprint

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Planet Rugby is very different from the world of geopolitics. The United States is not a superpower but a minnow that failed to qualify for the World Cup

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Hans Sautter’s “Japan”: A Photographer’s Lifework

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The Sacred is there to balance the profane. We need them both.

Culture Reflections

Burn On, Joe! A 1960s Manga Icon Lifts Spirits Today

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“Old man, I’m begging you… let me carry on… until there’s nothing left of me but white ashes,..”

Culture Reflections Shuji Terayama

The Gambler Vs. The Bodybuilder: Shuji Terayama Meets Yukio Mishima

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Strangely enough, it is the approach of the iconoclastic Terayama that seems more in tune with traditional Japanese aesthetics

Shuji Terayama

“Hey, America!”: Poem by Shuji Terayama (abridged)

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The America that killed my father in a sea-battle off New Guinea… the America of Kirk Douglas’ dimpled chin… of train robber Jesse James…

Culture Reflections Shuji Terayama

Journey to Fear Mountain

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He sensed the presence of a dusty, crouching, terrible god who does not often show himself in this world.

Culture Reflections Shuji Terayama

Michi the Questioner

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“What is your favourite way to be betrayed by somebody?”

Culture Reflections Shuji Terayama

Postcards From Another Planet

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”Even things that didn’t happen are part of history…”

Culture Reflections Shuji Terayama

“Third” – Terayama’s last screenplay for somebody else

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A Japanese “Shawshank Redemption” was never on the cards.

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My Haiku for the Rugby World Cup

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The word “rugby” has become one of the required “season words,” signifying winter.