This analysis of the recent election in Japan is worth a look:
http://tinyurl.com/nfpazw
It was published in the online Yomiuri. Yomiuri is the world's largest newspaper and the front runner among Japanese newspapers.
"Chura" is an Okinawa word meaning "beautiful"--beautiful environment, beautiful souls, that kind of beauty. This weblog is my attempt to communicate the beauty of life in Japan... Wait... Make that the beauty of life anywhere. Be it weblog, a short story, fiction or non-fiction, that is what I believe good writing should do. So. Here we go. Let the blogging begin! [Updated bi-weekly. If you check in once a week, you'll always see something new]