On Aug. 9, 1945, Nagasaki was devastated by an atomic bomb. That makes a visit to Kokura, the original target, a sobering reminder of all that would have been destroyed — and all that was where the bombs landed. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2025/08/09/lifestyle/kokura-walking-tour-atomic-bomb-nagasaki/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #life #lifestyle #wwii #atomicbombings #nuclearweapons
Jane Su and Mika Horii's hit podcast “Over the Sun” started with riffs on listener emails. Now it’s a lifeline for women navigating midlife in Japan https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2025/07/31/lifestyle/poscast-over-the-sun-interview/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #life #lifestyle #podcasts #women039sissues #tbs #janesu #mikahorii
Greg Lloyd
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Samurai no longer duel to the death. But at the Hogyokukai’s annual swordsmanship competition, victory and defeat still hung on the edge of a blade. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2025/07/26/lifestyle/life-brooks-iaido-championship-swordsmanship-katana/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #life #lifestyle #samurai #martialarts #sports
Samurai no longer duel to the death. But at the Hogyokukai’s annual swordsmanship competition, victory and defeat still hung on the edge of a blade. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2025/07/26/lifestyle/life-brooks-iaido-championship-swordsmanship-katana/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #life #lifestyle #samurai #martialarts #sports
Melissa Fehr
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Why do fascists love yoga? Stewart Home has written a book, "Fascist Yoga: Grifters, Occultists, White Supremacists, and the New Order in Wellness," looking at how white supremacy and wellness came to be connected in the west, and continue to be linked today via movements like QAnon. The Observer talked to him and other experts on the subject. “I ... think there’s a broad overlap,” podcaster Travis View says, “between the hyper-individualism of the far right and new age wellness thinking. There’s a distrust of, for example, public health measures and a belief that you have a moral obligation to take care of your own health entirely. This is why there’s so much overlap in anti-vaccine belief; it’s a far-right belief, but also something you’d see in crunchy yoga circles.”
Why do fascists love yoga? Stewart Home has written a book, "Fascist Yoga: Grifters, Occultists, White Supremacists, and the New Order in Wellness," looking at how white supremacy and wellness came to be connected in the west, and continue to be linked today via movements like QAnon. The Observer talked to him and other experts on the subject. “I ... think there’s a broad overlap,” podcaster Travis View says, “between the hyper-individualism of the far right and new age wellness thinking. There’s a distrust of, for example, public health measures and a belief that you have a moral obligation to take care of your own health entirely. This is why there’s so much overlap in anti-vaccine belief; it’s a far-right belief, but also something you’d see in crunchy yoga circles.”
Why has 69-year-old Takuji Yasunaka devoted several decades of his life to running a Tokyo complex featuring Middle Eastern and Central Asian culture? “In a way, I guess I am hoping to create a kind of utopia.” https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2025/07/19/lifestyle/pao-compound-central-asia-higashi-nakano/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #life #lifestyle #shopping #travel #libraries
Tokyobike founder Ichiro Kanai is working on building a lifestyle for customers that revolves around slow bike rides through compelling cities such as Tokyo. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2025/07/15/lifestyle/tokyobike-lifestyle-bicycles/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #life #lifestyle #tokyo #tokyobike #ichirokanai
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Cats and dogs, meerkats and goats — the most mundane thing about Osaka’s Interpets trade fair may have been the human pet owners themselves. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2025/06/28/lifestyle/pets-osaka-japan-convention/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #life #lifestyle #pets #osaka
We are (deliberately) blind to the climate catastrophe that is slowly engulfing us. Cartoon from 2023.
