The Shortest History of Japan

The Shortest History of JapanZen, haiku, martial arts, sushi, anime, manga, film, video games Japanese culture has long enriched our western way of life. Yet from a western perspective, Japan remains a remote island country that has long had a complicated relationship with the outside world. Even at the nearest point, Japan an archipelago strung like a necklace around the Asian mainland is considerably farther from Asia than Britain is from Europe. The sea provides an effective

and where he can somewhat fulfil his pursuit of presenting music to the world as close to his imagination as possible

At the time

watch and care for

on board a ship to New South Wales

Badlands announced the arrival of a major talent: Terrence Malick

the album has achieved mythic status across generations of listeners who have "ventured in the slipstream" and fallen under the music's spell

two boxers were paid five million dollars apiece to confront each other in an epic match

I want to put my phone down and see someone's facial expression change with what they say

takes the chauffeur’s boy by mistake – but still demands the ransom

A searing account of George Orwell's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s

with “Cold Iron Bounds” (Live

the street harassment that unsettled her