Author, Researcher and Lecturer with a Passion for History, Music and Japan
The Disabled Peasant Boy Who Became a Medical Doctor In a a garden in the grounds of the Korle Bu hospital in the Western part of Ghana’s capital Accra, stands a pedestal with the bust of a man with bushy hair and a moustache, wearing a jacket and tie. ‘Noguchi…
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…
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…