The film adaptation of the best-selling novel Memoirs of a Geisha follows the story of a young Japanese girl sold to a geisha house in Kyoto during the late 1930s. The narrative development comes courtesy of the fictional true confessions of Sayuri’s forbidden desire for love and happiness while one of Japan’s most celebrated [...]

Who Cares? I care.
I wonder if the 300+ people standing on the banks of the Thames this weekend have any idea what Japanese Whaling is and the fact that thousands of these animals are killed each year ‘in the name of science’ and the luxurious meat market. I can’t help but think that the reaction [...]