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COMMENTARY / World / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK

Still dreaming of a level field after all these years

By Hiroaki Sato

Aug 25, 2013

NEW YORK – Wednesday will mark the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington that soon came to be equated with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s speech, “I Have a Dream.”

Delivered with what I take to be a Southern preacher’s passionate cadence blended into skillful anaphora, the speech was filled with literary allusions, historical references, and homely images.

King began with, “Five score years ago” — an unmistakable reminder of President Abraham Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address,” in November 1863, which began, “Four score and seven years ago,” echoing the Bible.

Amid the heat and humidity in Japan, a good night’s sleep is growing increasingly elusive without the heavy use of air conditioning.

Summer has arrived in Japan and so have hot sleepless nights

By Tomoko Otake

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

For many people, utility poles and power lines have become such a familiar part of Japan’s landscape that they often go unnoticed.

Why Japan’s utility poles won’t be disappearing anytime soon

By Alex K.T. Martin

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