Tobias Harris
@tobiasharris
Japanese politics analyst; author of The Iconoclast: Shinzō Abe and the New Japan; Chicago-born Cubs fan now living in DC; marathoner. Substack: Observingjapan.substack.com. Business: www.japanforesight.com
Meme mocking Takaichi's pivot to financial repression, i.e. turning to the GPIF to buy JGBs again.
Got some new speed trainers on sale. Can't wait until it's, you know, possible to breathe outside so I can try them out. (Streakfly 2s in case anyone has experience)
I just love kare raisu, whether from a chain or a place with white table cloth. But who doesn't enjoy a good kare raisu?
I challenge anyone to make sense of this answer from Finance Minister Katayama.
Honestly, this is probably right for me. britmonkey.com/2020s-politi...
I almost can't believe it. This was the first P500 GMT game I ever ordered, literally two weeks into the COVID lockdown in April 2020.
J. Graham Parsons noting in a letter to his mother that he will be hosting NY Yankees Jerry Coleman and Billy Martin for dinner while the Yankees toured Japan in November 1955 (same week the LDP was born).
@levimclaughlin.bsky.social, he was a little obsessed with Soka Gakkai.
This is a charming archival find from June 1960. Invitation to lunch from Harry Kern, ex-Newsweek and a sherpa of sorts for Kishi, with Fitzgerald and Ulmer (CIA FE division) to Asst Sec State/FE J. Graham Parsons. Parsons was unavailable. cc: @tim-weiner.bsky.social
Made a Father's Day feast, with my children doing a lot of the work folding gyoza.
Sneak peek at my interview with James David Malcolm about Japan's fiscal situation for the podcast this week. It's a good one!
But all of the geostrategists told me that the road to Beijing runs through Tehran and China was the biggest loser from the war.
Forget whether to criticize the "agreement" from the left or right. It's all valence issues, corruption, (in)competence, cost of living, cronyism. (Read Theory)