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Arthur O Keefe Arthur Shattuck O Keefe was born in New York and lives in Japan. His debut novel The Spirit Phone forthcoming from BHC Press depicts the confrontation of Aleister Crowley and Nikola Tesla with the enigma of Thomas Edison s new invention: a phone to communicate with the dead. His short story A Spirited Conversation, based upon The Spirit Phone, will be published in Suspense Magazine (TBA) and the Fall / Winter 2021 issue of The Stray Branch. His short fiction has also appeared in Manawaker Studio and Flash Fiction Magazine. He has contributed articles to PopMatters, The Japan Times, and Japan Today. ....
Robert Kennedy confronts communist hecklers at Waseda University in 1962 Mar. 2 06:30 am JST Mar. 2 | 08:52 pm JST TOKYO On Feb. 4, 1962, 36-year-old U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and his wife Ethel stepped off their plane at Haneda International Airport, the start of a six-day trip. During their flight, they’d practiced a welcome speech in Japanese, tutored by U.S. Ambassador to Japan Edwin O. Reischauer, who spoke fluent Japanese and had studied the country intensively over the years his book on Japanese history informing Eleanor Roosevelt’s trip to Japan back in 1953. Inside the airport terminal, Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy stood before a microphone and delivered their best “arigatou gozaimasu,” with Robert expressing the best wishes of his brother, President John F. Kennedy. Ethel attempted to address the crowd, hundreds of whom were smiling that the Kennedy couple had tried to speak Japanese at all. When Ethel finally ga ....
Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. Shake Hands An iconic photograph captured the Washington meeting of these two titans as the Senate debated the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Library of Congress Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. talk after the Georgia civil rights leaderâs press conference at the U.S. Capitol in 1964. Itâs in the low 70s and partly cloudy in Washington when members of the Senate gather on March 26, 1964. There are two motions on the agenda this Thursday morning. The first is a noncontroversial one: to call up the civil rights bill that has recently been passed by the House of Representatives. The second is less predictable: Should the Senate refer the bill to the Judiciary Committee for a ten-day review? ....
Commodore Perry’s black ships deliver a letter to Japan in July 1853 Jan. 28 06:51 am JST Jan. 29 | 10:58 am JST It wasn’t a surprise. As early as 1852, a Dutch agent in Nagasaki had given a report to high-level Japanese officials describing an expedition led by Matthew Calbraith Perry, consisting of “two steamships and two other ships.” Japan’s bakufu the shogunate government in power for the last seven centuries had limited their trading to China, Korea, Holland and the Ryukyu Island chain. Fourteen years earlier they’d received a similar report, stating that British ships were coming, but after a no-show, the Japanese lost a bit of trust in the Dutch reports, believing their sole European trading partner was attempting to use to their advantage the fear of other more intimidating competitors. The report on the Americans was acknowledged, but not taken seriously. ....