The Eastern Edge

This website, and this blog in particular, may have appeared mostly abandoned over the last year or so. However, if you could see behind the public face it has actually come to look at lot like a digital snapshot of whatever part of my brain stores all… more »

Wow. Is a movie made from the "enemy" perspective getting honored like this in the U.S. a first? 'Letters from Iwo Jima' named top film by U.S. National Board of Review LOS ANGELES -- Clint Eastwood's World War II film "Letters from Iwo Jima," star… more »

Class A "Crimes against Peace" What is "Class A"? Well, unlike many seem to think, "A" is not a "ranking"; as in "ABC", with "A" being the highest (or "worst"). In fact Class C crimes are by far the worst on the bad scale. So, what is it?… more »

...is the original title of Letters from Iwo Jima, the Clint Eastwood movie based on the book Letters from Iwo Jima about General Tadamichi Kuribayashi. I haven't read the book yet, but I plan to after seeing the movie. Honestly, it'll take me a little… more »

WTF is Part 1a!? Well, I am still in the middle of Part 2 and I saw this quote and just had to post it. This goes right along with what McNamara said in the movie "The Fog of War" about LeMay and the air raids, that if they lost the war they would have… more »

(This was actually written on Aug.15th but I didn't get around to publishing it until now cause I'm a lazy bum).This morning, on the 61st anniversary of Japan's surrender to end WWII, Prime Minister Koizumi visited the Yasukuni shrine on the actual s… more »

Interesting bit of news following Japan's choke last Monday against Australia;NIRASAKI, Yamanashi - A fight that broke out at a public screening event after Japan lost to Australia in the World Cup on Monday night left three people injured.The pu… more »

I never intended to make this a Japan current affair blog, I am too lazy a blogger, and not interested enough in mainstream media and what other people think about it, to bother to do that. However, since I wrote a little about Horie, I felt it only fai… more »

Found this in the news today and chopped up a few stories for a summery:Clint Eastwood on the war films he grew up watching; "One side was good and one side was the villain. Well, we know that war just isn’t like that."Eastwood hopes to correct t… more »

Further to my previous post;TOKYO — The House of Representatives on Thursday approved by a majority vote a bill revising the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Law to fingerprint and photograph all foreign visitors as part of its campaign… more »

This is the edited (edited my me, of course) version of a news story I saw yesterday; TOKYO ? The government on Tuesday approved a bill revising the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Law to fingerprint and photograph all foreign visitors as… more »

Prince Akishino, second in line to the throne, and his wife, just announced they are having another child. What a coincidence! At age 39 (the wife, that is) and with their youngest daughter being 11 years old already, it only makes sense that they wo… more »

"If Aiko becomes the reigning empress and gets involved with a blue-eyed foreigner while studying abroad and marries him, their child may become emperor. We should never let that happen."Former trade minister Takeo Hiranuma, who is leading a group that… more »

I woke up this morning felling good that Horie had been arrested mere hours after my post on the subject. However meanwhile, back in Canada, the polls have appearently just closed in the maritimes and the Senators just scored against the Leafs to go u… more »

Actually he sat on his ass in the Mori building at Roppongi Hills, but anyway...“He who makes money wins” is the famous quote from Livedoor CEO Hori’s best selling book. It was all about making as much money as possible and hopefully pissing o… more »