Author Archives: M. Hardwick

The Hunted producer doing his best to get the movie canceled

“It wasn’t a bad movie.  It was alright, but it’s […]

Just the thought of a non-Japanese person asking her one simple question takes old lady out of her comfort zone

Despite the vocab being able to be learnt by anyone wit […]

Australian Swims At Shonan Beach

“I wasn’t sure exactly why I did that,” exclaims Katrin […]

New Yorker finds a hill to die on: The Japanese version of Queer Eye For The Straight Guy

“Everyone has their limits.  Everyone has a line, […]

Desperate film studio’s Seven Samurai adaption sees uniform outrage

Following the Kurosawa family’s failed legal challenge […]

Japan. For western guys who never experienced this at school…

Kyoto people returning to the good old days of simply having contempt for the rest of Japan

The maiko are back walking on the street unimpeded, the […]

Westerners in Japan finally get a Voice

With a face best suited to radio, Kingsley Hepburn know […]

More Japanese Than Japanese

27 year old Englishman Warwick Greenwood was paid the u […]

Trump “turned Japanese” for top level meetings in Tokyo

Keeping with his new policy of just trying to fit in, a […]