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Review of SBS The Feed’s Sex in Japan: a new look at a disturbingly old problem

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I think Sex in Japan: Dying for Company is a compassionate and insightful look at today’s Japan. What I like most in this story is the reporting. Rather than talking to media savvy academics or commentators, The Feed team engage with ‘ordinary’ young Japanese. Continue reading Review of SBS The Feed’s Sex in Japan: a new look at a disturbingly old problem

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Review of Star Sand by Roger Pulvers

Review of Star Sand by Roger Pulvers: simple, short, sweet, a little too starry

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Author Roger Pulvers is a polymath with a formidable list of achievements that after perusing, usually require a lie down with a cold cloth on my forehead. He is the kind of person we might refer to as ‘atama ga agaranai’, a person whose achievements are so humbling that you are compelled to bow down to them. Continue reading Review of Star Sand by Roger Pulvers: simple, short, sweet, a little too starry