Latest Blog Posts for Yaw and Mog

• Power and the Irrational Man
  on Dec 6, 2012 in Politics and World Affairs
  Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to triumph. — Hail...
• Power and the Irrational Man
  on Dec 6, 2012 in Politics and World Affairs
  Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to triumph. — Hail...
• Ahn Sehong and the plight of the Korean comfort women in China
  on Jul 1, 2012 in Culture Living in Japan Photojournalism Politics and World Affairs
  I just got back from seeing the photography exhibit by Ahn Sehong of Korean women who were used as sex slaves by the Japanese military, and were dumped on some barren field in China to fend off for themselves. Now in their 80′s and 90′s,...
• Ahn Sehong and the plight of the Korean comfort women in China
  on Jul 1, 2012 in Culture Living in Japan Photojournalism Politics and World Affairs
  I just got back from seeing the photography exhibit by Ahn Sehong of Korean women who were used as sex slaves by the Japanese military, and were dumped on some barren field in China to fend off for themselves. Now in their 80’s and 90’s,...
• The Hallelujah Moment: Areva announces solution to the Fukushima problem
  on Apr 19, 2011 in Living in Japan News Politics and World Affairs
  Sixty-seven thousand five hundred tons — that is the amount of radioactive water at the Fukushima nuclear plant that somehow needs to be gotten rid of. As I understand it, this huge amount of radioactive water is located in the basements, hinde...
• A Political Agenda
  on Mar 25, 2011 in Living in Japan News Politics and World Affairs
  Among all the Westerners in Japan, none were so unusually alarmed by the earthquake/tsunami/nuclear reactor crisis than the French community in Tokyo. The first communique from the French Embassy reassured the people, telling them that the Japanese a...
• Tokyo Radiation Levels
  on Mar 15, 2011 in Living in Japan News Uncategorized
  So we read news that the radiation level in Tokyo following the nuclear plant explosions at Fukushima (explosion at nuclear reactor 1 occurred on Saturday, 12 March, the day after the earthquake-tsunami catastrophe; and a second explosion at nuclear...
• Stand in solidarity with Burma’s political prisoners
  on Sep 7, 2010 in Photojournalism Politics and World Affairs
  Amnesty International: Stand in solidarity with Burma’s political prisoners To stand with the people of Burma, all you need to do is: 1. Read the list of cases (on the Amnesty Intl website) and decide which prisoner(s) you would like to support...
• International Day of the Disappeared
  on Aug 30, 2009 in News Politics and World Affairs
  Sunday 30th August marks the International Day of the Disappeared: James Balao, an activist working on Indigenous Peoples rights, was forcibly disappeared on 17 September 2008 in Baguio City, Philippines. He was last seen near his home being roughly...
• Climate Talks at Copenhagen
  on Jun 12, 2009 in Politics and World Affairs Science and Technology
  There is no way an agreement can be reached between parties involved (the environmentally-minded public versus industry and governments), that would satisfy the concerns of both during Climate talks. The public will never be satisfied with low quotas...

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