It would be easy to define terrorism as attacks against human rights and international humanitarian law forbids attacks against innocent non-combatants which is often the definition used for terrorism.

For some reason, I grew up generally believing that Japan and Korea were quite friendly. I do know that there is some bad history and the extremists on both sides are unreasonable.

You're not going to be on top of mountain all by yourself with a #2 pencil What we need to learn is how to learn.

Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.

We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation.

Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy?

I don't like the word 'futurists.' I think we should be 'nowists.'