For Finbar O'Mallon's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
Cleveland breathed a sigh of relief on Thursday night as the Republican National Convention closed without major incident. The lead-up to the convention had media outlets and Cleveland police planning for the worst, expecting large turnouts at violent protests against presidential nominee Donald Trump. Rather, small ...
Police in downtown Cleveland kept watch over a tense peace Tuesday as Donald Trump clinched the Republican presidential nomination. Several ideologically opposed groups came face to face in Public Square late in the afternoon, including racism protesters, the incendiary right-wing Westboro Baptist Church and conspiracy ...
Sharla of Sharla in Japan is a 29-year-old, Canadian-born, Tokyo-based “YouTuber” (“That's what they call it here,” she says). With over 200,000 subscribers to her channel, she documents her life. After regular trips to Japan in her teens and early 20s, Sharla finally settled in ...
Josh Klinghoffer sounds exhausted even after taking a nap, "I didn't feel so well today," he says over the phone from Los Angeles. He has worked himself into the ground over the past few days, working with the Red Hot Chili Peppers on their ...
In 1972, Cup Noodles earned their fame during a live television broadcast of a siege in Nagano Prefecture — the Asama-Sanso incident — when the hostage-takers were shown slurping the hot noodles up. The Ramen Book, by Hayato Ishiyama112 ...
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott survived a leadership challenge on Monday, but his last-minute pledge to allow an open tender on the construction of new submarines poses a challenge to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who must weigh the political risks of becoming more public ...
Australian politics has worked itself into a frenzy. Prime Minister Tony Abbott, after ridiculing the previous Labor government for its public infighting, faces a leadership challenge from inside his own Liberal Party.
With our planet teetering on a climate crisis, environmentalists have recently started making the case for going green from the perspective that it's good for business. The Greening of Asia, by Mark L. Clifford 320 pages. Columbia Business School Publishing, Nonfiction. Enter Mark L. Clifford's "The Greening ...
At the start of "Asian Comics" John A. Lent announces Japanese comics won't get a mention — so manga fans, back away. Instead, he traces the development of cartoons in China, Korea, Malaysia and other Asian nations. Asian Comics, ...
Ground Zero, Nagasaki, by Seirai Yuichi, Translated by Paul Warham. Colombia University Press, Fiction. Seirai Yuichi's "Ground Zero, Nagasaki" tells six short stories centered around Nagasaki's Christian community and the ongoing trauma of its atomic bombing. Paul Warham's clear translation means Yuichi's writing retains a ...
