In an effort to make travel safer and more pleasant for women, several new commuter trains in India are for women only.
Other Places I would Like To Be Only For Women
1. The women’s bathroom at the movie theater on 68th street last night. That was really weird.
The end.
xoxo
Gossip Girl
(Sophie)
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A List in Response to a News: Ladies’ Specials? That’s What She Said!!!!
Posted in Asia, Foreign affairs, Personalities on September 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Global Citizenship Expert Reviews Japan’s Open Future
Posted in Asia, Foreign affairs, History, Japan, Philosophy, Popular culture, tagged book review, Global Asia, global citizenship, Hans Schattle, Japan, Japan's Open Future on July 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’d like to share a recent review of my book Japan’s Open Future: An Agenda for Global Citizenship by Dr. Hans Schattle, an expert on global citizenship and author of the 2007 book The Practices of Global Citizenship.
I have not yet had the chance to read Schattle’ s book, but according to the Amazon review, it “provides a detailed and [...]
Cleopatra’s Dessert and Shark Fin Soup
Posted in Arts and Aesthetics, Asia, Environment, Foreign affairs, History, Japan, Personalities, Philosophy, Uncategorized, tagged black swan, Cleopatra, discount rate, humility, intergenerational equity, nuclear waste, Ramsey, shark fin soup, Taleb on June 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
At a Brussels nuclear law conference in 2007, I gave a technical paper on intergenerational issues in nuclear waste economics. I argued for the prudence of applying a conservative discount rate when setting aside funds for future nuclear waste management so as to guard against contingencies. Recently I had the chance to look at my argument again with fresh eyes [...]
Foreign Workers in Japan: Please Close the Door When You Leave
Posted in Asia, Foreign affairs, History, Japan, Media, Uncategorized on June 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A recent episode of National Public Radio’s All Things Considered discusses Japan’s (mis)treatment of foreign workers; my Japan book co-author, Jean-Pierre Lehmann, is interviewed just after five minutes into the seven minute program. It’s also worth listening for the politician Taro Kono’s candid comments about 3:28 into the interview.
A recent New York Times article, “Japan Pays Foreign Workers to [...]
Could China become another Japan?
Posted in Asia, Foreign affairs, History, Japan, Media, Uncategorized, tagged China, economics, FDI, Finance, Japan, Slater, trade on May 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Below is an interesting article by Dan Slater of Finance Asia in response to Japan’s Open Future (the book I have written with Tomas Casas i Klett and Jean-Pierre Lehmann, as introduced in an earlier post). I am reprinting Dan’s article here with his kind permission; it has been picked up on a couple of other sites [...]
We’re doin’ it for the kids
Posted in Asia, Foreign affairs, tagged Afghanistan, peace process, taliban, women's rights on April 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A very interesting article appears today in the Independent, discussing some policy concessions proposed by representatives of the Taliban who have been quietly negotiating with Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s government. Among the proposals: a commitment to refrain from banning the education of girls, measuring the length of beards, or making the wearing of burqas compulsory.
This [...]
Japan’s Open Future
Posted in Asia, Foreign affairs, History, Japan, Media, Uncategorized, tagged demographics, financial crisis, globalization, immigration, Japan, openness, pessimism, reform on March 22, 2009 | 3 Comments »
At long last, my book Japan’s Open Future: An Agenda for Global Citizenship (co-authored with Tomas Casas i Klett and Jean-Pierre Lehmann) has landed in warehouses in the UK and the US. My fellow bloggers at Sans Everything will know that this has been a long time in the making, and I thank them for some very helpful feedback on [...]
In Honour of Musa Khankhel
Posted in Arts and Aesthetics, Asia, Foreign affairs, History, Literature, Media, Personalities, Philosophy, Uncategorized on February 20, 2009 | 4 Comments »
As with all his writing, Kafka’s masterful story Ein Brudermord (A Fratricide) can be read on many levels. Most immediately it is about the inexplicable murder of Wese by Schmar, with the neighbour Pallas a passive observer to the scene; Wese’s wife arrives too late, only to discover her husband is already dead. Yet on a deeper [...]
Updike and Caniff
Posted in Arts and Aesthetics, Asia, Popular culture, tagged John Updike, Milton Caniff, Terry and the Pirates on February 10, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Milton Caniff and Joan Crawford, holding a drawing of the Dragon Lady
Milton Caniff’s Terry and the Pirates was one of the great comic strips of the 1930s and 1940s: it had action, lovely ink-rich noir art, a winsome young hero who matures during the course of his adventures, an exciting Asian backdrop (which in the [...]
