Learning More About Japan Through the Film Rental Family (2025)
I wouldn’t have known about this film at all if my wife hadn’t pointed upward at the hotel elevator’s TV screen. Seven floors. Multiple fragmented glimpses of a trailer I couldn’t quite piece together. But it stayed with me. Eventually I watched it on my PC. I went in with almost no understanding of what […]
Between Two Worlds: Signals – How Cultures can come to Misunderstandings on X
Hello again, dear readers. Today’s signal comes from my own recent experience with social media — specifically X. As with all Between Two Worlds articles, my goal is to offer a bridge between two cultures: the West and Japan. If we’re lucky, you’ll leave this reading with a small “I didn’t know that,” or perhaps […]
Between Two Worlds: Signals — Work, Loyalty, and the Myth of Corporate Family
Hello again, dear readers. Today’s signal comes from an unusual source — an AI‑generated road sign that looks like it should exist in the real world but absolutely doesn’t. It’s too long for drivers, too dense for roadside safety, and too ideologically pointed to be anything other than a feed‑native artifact. It was built for […]