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Dec 24, 2020 Japan rang in 2020 with dreams of Olympic glory. Not so much the athletic kind, though there was that too, but more in terms of branding. It was a chance to reaffirm the country’s position as a player on the global pop culture stage. Looking at the mainstream successes won by South Korea pop group BTS, the film “Parasite” surely there would be room for another player from Asia on the global pop culture stage. By late February, though, Japan’s entertainment-industrial complex found itself disrupted or shut down completely as the novel coronavirus spread across the country. However, what grew into a once-in-a-century event also presented a period of transformation for a country often viewed as being behind the times. ....
Dec 19, 2020 As 2021 approaches, six Japan Times book reviewers look back on their top reads released in English this year. Breasts and Eggs, Fiction, Mieko Kawakami (trans. Sam Bett and David Boyd), Picador, 432 pages If you missed “Breasts and Eggs,” Mieko Kawakami’s expansive and lively omnibus, put it at the top of your 2021 reading list. The book is made up of two connected novellas that were combined and translated into English this year, and together the story explores the human condition by examining what it means to be born. No one delves into humanity quite like Kawakami, who adroitly balances social issues with humor and juxtaposes philosophical questions with streetwise answers. Kawakami’s sprawling, soaring, sometimes stumbling prose always rights itself into a sly meditation on human flaws and fallacies, taking on single motherhood, social isolation, gender norms and sexual abuse. ....
TORONTO Thanks to a $250,000 donation, Nunavut’s only humane society is now about halfway to its $1 million fundraising goal to replace its old facility. “Humans can be so generous and it really caught us by surprise,” Iqaluit Humane Society president Janelle Kennedy told CTVNews on Sunday. The current building, housed on property owned by the city, is now condemned because of a mould problem and will be torn down in the spring or summer of 2021. The hefty donation to the society s Million Dollar Mission building fund was thanks to Eric S. Margolis Family Foundation which has offered a helping hand to the humane society from time to time in the past. ....
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