Vol.11
Forest of Thought
The Nord Stream Sabotage｜The Secret U.S. Operation Exposed by Seymour Hersh
The Nord Stream pipelines were blown up on September 26, 2022. According to Seymour Hersh, the plan began more than two months before Russia invaded Ukraine. The real aim was to physically eliminate Germany's option of buying natural gas from Russia.
Kunitsukami Project
Katsuragi Hitokotonushi Shrine and Kamotsuba Shrine｜Two Koto Deities, One of Word and One of Deed
The sensibility that "koto" is both word and deed gave birth in myth to Hitokotonushi, god of the word, and Kotoshironushi, god of the deed. At the foot of Mount Katsuragi stands Katsuragi Hitokotonushi Shrine, and on the plain below it, Kamotsuba Shrine. The sight of two Koto deities side by side shows the sensibility of the ancient Japanese.
KINEMA 2400
Kashiko Kawakita｜The Towa Intermediary Who Carried Japanese Cinema to the World's Film Festivals
Kashiko Kawakita was neither director, actor, nor screenwriter, yet no one has quietly supported the skeleton of Japanese film history as she did. She carried the works of Kenji Mizoguchi and Teinosuke Kinugasa to film festivals worldwide, and sent out to the world even Yasujiro Ozu and Mikio Naruse, who had drawn little notice.