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China is usually the first nation to protest-loudly-any perceived backsliding by Japan on its acceptance of guilt for World War II abuses. Yet, last month, when Prime Minister Shinzo Abe denied Japan's wartime army had forced tens of thousands of Asian women into sexual slavery, igniting an international furor, Beijing stayed conspicuously quiet. China's diplomatic silence was the latest sign of an unexpected thaw in the two nations' often icy relationship...
...albeit slowly and sometimes in a contrived way) in a manner that suits the novel, a mystery concerned with the way in which humans turn to the supernatural to deal with notions of identity and an inheritance of our past. Each of the characters is presented, his or her guilt called into question, and then never quite absolved. The heart of the novel is a legitimate mystery about the frustration of not knowing, of producing (whether necessary or not) an unanswerable question that seeks resolution, and this is what gives “Angelica” its momentum and energy...
...higher brow cousin of CollegeHumor.com’s “Faking It,” a manual for how to talk about things, specifically books, about which you are ignorant. It is a book that provides validation and comfort for non-readers, arguing that people feel unnecessary guilt for not having read a book.Bayard is attempting to alleviate their guilt and give them the tools to avoid feeling excluded from the book-reading community.While I’m skeptical of the logic of a book that argues against reading, Bayard is onto something. Why do we feel...
...Fathers all over Asia share that sense of guilt over their inability to balance work and parenthood. Dr. Sanjay Chugh, a New Delhi psychiatrist, says these harried, overburdened men stream through his consulting rooms: "Indian fathers have less and less time to spend with their children. When stress goes up for a father, it affects not only the quantity of time he spends with his children but the quality." Some, like a 35-year-old human-resources manager in Tokyo, who asked not to be named, blame unsympathetic employers. "At my old workplace, most of the people in my department...
...Recognizing that fathers need encouragement if they are to change, society bombards them with helpful (or guilt-inducing) messages every time they pick up a remote control. Viewers of China Central TV wake up each day to the sight of pop star and actor Lin Yilun hosting a cooking show produced by the government in the hope that men will learn to effortlessly relieve their wives at the wok. In 2006, Japanese men were invited to benchmark themselves against the central character of Love Mum More Than Anyone-a TV drama series about an exemplary stay-at-home dad. Japan...