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Thom on East Asia

I am happy freelance translator and private guide in Tokyo, Japan. I am interested in everything East-Asia.

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Sugawara no Michizane and the early cold

Sugawara no Michizane 菅原道真 (845–903) was a prominent court official during Japan’s Heian period, a time often remembered today for its flourishing literary culture, but also for its political intrigue. Michizane was blessed by the first and...

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Nostalgic musings over Himeji

After a whopping four articles dedicated to Japan’s Upper House elections last week, I would like to slowly move back to more varied topics again. As it happens, I am currently on a tour through Japan with a small group of Dutch-speaking in...

10 months ago

The aftermath of Japan's 2025 elections

About 58% of eligible voters in Japan went to the polls yesterday to cast their votes in the House of Councillors elections. Like many others, I predicted in my earlier three articles on emerging new parties that the status quo might well b...

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The Conservative Party of Japan and the specter of revisionism

History is politics, and politics is history. Even for a new political party like the Conservative Party of Japan (CPJ, Nippon Hoshutō), history is a deeply important subject. The party was only founded two years ago, yet it already holds t...

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Reiwa Shinsengumi and the battle for Japan’s protest vote

In my article yesterday, I described from a personal perspective how I’ve experienced the rise of Japan’s new right in the lead-up to this Sunday’s House of Councillors elections. Most international media attention has gone to the Sanseitō,...

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