To be wrong ain't good. Suppressing truth is much worse. Japan's leadership is accused of actively suppressing data-collection ...

Volkswagen has admitted irregularities; their doctored automotive emissions add unknown hazards & poisons to our environment. Don'...

This week's Volkswagen emissions scandal draws attention to dangers in the major secret trade agreements being hatched by global corpor...

BBC reports : " US President Barack Obama said all European states should accept their "fair share" of asylum seekers "...

I like big business for economies-of-scale and efficiency. Big corporations also provide wealth & can counter public sector corruption ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe is being labeled a "War Criminal" ( 戦犯 - link) for his belligerent efforts to re-militarize J...

I feel continuing pain from Japanese bureaucracy's presumption: backed by law, it's essential we satisfy their demands. They extrac...

Today's heavy rain around the crippled Fukushima nuclear reactor led to drainage pump failure, leaking radioactivity into the ocean &a...

Over 5000 foreign people applied in Japan for refugee status in 2014 (link), and 11 were approved. Evidence of institutionalized racism...

The United Nations General Assembly yesterday voted overwhelmingly to support flying the flag of Palestine at the United Nations . The Stat...

Japan's bureaucracy is very costly. It creates jobs, and survives for its self-reinforcing audit functions. But bureaucracy is typicall...

Tom Brady's opponents might describe him as "arrogant & powerful"-- but Brady's a minor punk to the mighty National F...

Refugees from the Middle East & Africa continue to leave their war-torn homelands and pour into Europe. Conservative British Prime Mi...

Troubled nuclear operator TEPCO is planning to dump radioactive water into the sea outside Fukushima, Japan (link) . Nobody imagines this...

America embraces threat & use of force as means of settling international disputes. The results have been poor. Have we only been arr...

August is when Japan and the world remember the atomic bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki. Most people now pray for peace and safety. T...

Jeb Bush is an asshole. Jeb claims Pres. Obama & Sec. of State Hilary Clinton pulled U.S. troops from Iraq too early. But clearly hi...

The TTIP scandal is a secret, corporate-friendly treaty being pushed by American trade negotiators. It parallels the TPP and TISA , and...

The wars of the past continue into the future... Japanese premier Shinzo Abe visits occupied Okinawa and gets booed & heckled . His p...

Japanese Prime Minister Abe's government is enmeshed in a scandalous push to change national security laws, allowing far more overseas ...

President Obama reportedly congratulated his "outstanding partner" British Prime Minister David Cameron. "Outstanding partne...

Official comments on the Sandra Bland death in police custody must be doubted. Why after three days was this woman still jailed? The pr...

A lively young woman, rousted & jailed in Texas for not signalling a turn, is now dead. Sandy Bland was a newly-hired administrator f...

Corporate governance took two major hits this week, as Samsung agreed an insider-friendly merger within Korea over substantial opposition ,...

Nobody yet officially says the 2020 Olympics scheduled for Tokyo are impossible. But plans for the main stadium have been shredded -- to ...

Hillary Rodham Clinton has been near the center of American power since 1992, that's twenty-three years. She talks fancy, but the botto...

Data breach (link) at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management releases detailed financial & personal information about 21.5 million Ame...

Celebrating 1000 posts published! Uncomplicated premise to these publications: simple reflections But what motivates composition? Typ...

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, AIIB , ( 亚洲基础设施投资银行 or 亚投行 ) had their official signing ceremony today . Read here (link) abo...

How are smiles by America's leaders reconciled with news of US targeted infiltration & spying on the German Chancellor, the French ...