Shuchiin Academy is home to students from Japan’s most successful and wealthy families, as well the nation’s most brilliant young scholars.
Among them, the Student Council President, Miyuki Shirogane, and the Student Council Vice President, Kaguya Shinomiya, are the best of the best. They would be perfect together, if not for their shared pride and narcissism. Two geniuses develop over the top and clever schemes to try and get the other to confess their love first, because to them, love is war, and the first to confess their feelings loses.
Airline offers rent and unlimited flights for remote workers
Bloomberg – Oct 20
A Japanese domestic airline is seeking to fill empty seats by offering subscriptions to Tokyo-based workers that will let them move to a city nearly 900 kilometers (550 miles) away, and commute back-and-forth to the capital by air as many times as they want.
Japan’s Empress Emerita Michiko turns 88
NHK – Oct 20
Japan’s Empress Emerita Michiko turned 88 on Thursday.
The Empress Emerita moved in April from a temporary dwelling to her current residence in the Akasaka Estate in Tokyo’s Minato Ward, where she lived when she was Crown Princess.
Why is Tamawashi so good against Terunofuji?
Sumostew – Oct 19
In this essay, I discuss the unique strengths of Tamawashi, sumo’s oldest active wrestler in Makuuchi (sumo’s top division), and why these strengths are effective against the dominant Yokozuna Terunofuji after he has given away 4 gold stars to the veteran wrestler.
Chinese Dragon suspected in Tokyo skyscraper scuffle
NHK – Oct 18
A violent scuffle broke out at a Tokyo restaurant on Sunday. Police suspect the brawl was initiated by a gang known as Chinese Dragon. Gang members include people of Japanese ancestry related to those who were left behind in China after World War Two.
Kikubatake: Onoe Baikō VII’s Final Ushiwakamaru
Kabuki In-Depth – Oct 18
This performance of the Kikubatake scene took place in December 1993, at the National Theatre in Tokyo, and it would be one of the last onstage appearances of the great onnagata and nimaime Onoe Baikō VII (1915 – 1995), 78 years old at the time of this recording.
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