Norihiro Kato

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In September, after it was announced that Tokyo would host the summer Olympic Games in 2020, a sumo wrestler, Hakuho, took questions from the press. “I got goose bumps when I heard the news,” he said. “This gives me a new goal to aim for.” Hakuho, a Mongolian citizen whose father took home a silver medal in freestyle wrestling from the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, went on to express his hope that as a yokozuna — the highest rank in the sumo hierarchy — he might be asked to perform the slow, ponderous motions of a ceremonial “ring entry” dance for the opening ceremony.…  Seguir leyendo »

MundoAsiaInternacionalEconomía,

Gross domestic product figures for the second quarter show that China has overtaken Japan as the world’s second largest economy. I have been traveling while on leave from the university in Tokyo where I teach, and was in Paris when the news broke last week. My first reaction, frankly, was one of relief. In English, perhaps, one might say it was “a load off my shoulders.”

In Japanese, people use the phrase “right shoulder up” to describe a graph that keeps going up, with each year’s figures rosier than the last. Of course, if that climbing line is someone’s right shoulder, it means the left is languishing somewhere out of sight.…  Seguir leyendo »