Japan is sinking, but maybe it deserves to be. Japan Sinks: 2020 is a thoroughly enjoyable journey that’s’ satisfying in the way that the best disaster stories are, but also features so many creative examples of connection and family. It finds ways to use things like freestyle rap or...
Synopsis:Tokyo 2023. Japan’s prime minister announces a plan to store contaminated material in deep-sea strata while entrusting a team of young technocrats to protect Japan’s future. Meanwhile, the public is alarmed by sensational magazine articles predicting the sinking of the Kanto plain owing...
(This is my review of Sakyo Komatsu’s original SF novel, from Anime FX way back in 1995 when it was released in paperback suspiciously swiftly after the Kobe Earthquake. The latest movie remake, oddly retitled Sinking of Japan, is out this week in the UK from MVM). Although the hardba...
Tag Archives: Sinking of Japan Japan Sinks Posted on March 9, 2010 3 (This is my review of Sakyo Komatsu’s original SF novel, from Anime FX way back in 1995 when it was released in paperback suspiciously swiftly after the Kobe Earthquake. The latest movie remake, oddly retitled ...
In this game, you have to escape from a sinking ship with the help of a girl who tries to communicate with you through a closed window. Can you make it in time? 2. Escape From The Prison Language: Japanese, English Playtime: 10 minutes This is a game where you get locked in prison...
I say she was a lying scab about the war, and that she helped destroy the State Department by sinking too many of her limited staff into the sucking pit of the World’s Largest Embassy (c) in Baghdad and neglecting America’s foreign relations with the rest of the planet. FOUR: Condi...
Kimurayama is making it 6-fer-6, sinking under .5 again today. The next one was a lot more one-sided, from start to finish, with Tamawashi using his superior pushing attack on the hapless Shimotori, but, like above, just when you thought "this is it", Moo managed to jump out of...
Can you figure out which movie this poster is parodying? Read More You’ve all heard the joke about the sinking ship, right? This joke explicitly reveals the deep inner motivations of the men of many different nations. It’s famous for hitting the nail on the head when it comes to cult...
Ghost of War: The Sinking of the Awa Maru and Japanese-American Relations, 1945–1995. By Roger Dingman. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1997. xv, 3... By Roger Wingman. (Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1997. 400 pp. $35.00.) At the beginning of the 1990s, the rel...
But the Chinese didn’t buy that. Maybe they have WE WILL NEVER FORGET banners out in the rural towns the way the US used to say about Pearl Harbor, the Alamo, and Little Bighorn. And the sinking of the Maine and the Lusitania. ...