Vol.13
Forest of Thought
As America's Peak Millennials Rise, Postwar Japan-US Relations Will Break Down from the American Side
America is the only advanced country with abundant Millennials and Gen Z. The largest cohort of any generation, born in 1990 and 1991, is called "Peak Millennials." Japan will not change, but America, Japan's master, is changing, and the existing Japan-US relationship is likely to break down.
Kunitsukami Project
The Japanese, an Endangered Species Carrying Archaic Humans｜Neanderthals and Denisovans
The genomes of modern Japanese carry the legacy of two extinct archaic humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans, woven in like a mosaic. That archaic "evolutionary shortcut" is now a seed of depression, type 2 diabetes, and allergies. The Japanese may be an endangered species.
KINEMA 2400
Why the Art Theatre Guild Was Born｜The Defeat of Anpo and Kashiko Kawakita
The 1960s began with the defeat of the Anpo struggle. Young people carrying questions that politics had left unanswered ran into art films in dim cinemas. Centered on Kashiko Kawakita, the Art Theatre Guild, known as ATG, was born on November 15, 1961.