Author, Researcher and Lecturer with a Passion for History, Music and Japan
Tanaka Shôzô 田中正造 (1841-1913): A Champion for the Victims of the Ashia Pollution Case Tanaka Shôzô, elected into Japan’s first Parliament in 1890 as the representative of Aso district in Tochigi prefecture, learned for the public good early in life. At the age of only 17 he succeeded his father…
My research often leads me in unexpected directions My interest in Kate Ingeborg Hansen (1879-1968) was aroused when I started researching musical life in 19th– and early 20th century Sendai. Hansen, a native of Kansas, came to Sendai in September 1907 as a missionary, together with Lydia Almira Lindsey (1880-1971)….
1. Earlier this April I travelled what seemed like one of the most desolate places I have seen in Japan: the area around the Ashio Copper Mines. Mining ceased in 1973, and 1980 the mines re-opened as a tourist attraction. In 2017, it looked to me as if even tourism…