A Ghost Story That Shaped a Nation’s Words — Learning Bushido Beyond the Sword
How a classic Japanese ghost story shaped modern Japanese language and revealed a side of Bushido beyond the sword—restraint, responsibility, and balance in an age of endless voices.
Elon Musk’s AI Future - and the Question of Human Value
Elon Musk predicts a future where AI surpasses human intelligence and work disappears. This essay explores human value beyond productivity, drawing on Jomon culture, Bushido, and a vision of resonance between humans and AI.
When Silence Is Kindness: What Japanese Myth Teaches Us About Justice
What if justice is not about exposing guilt, but about protecting what must not be broken?
Through the Japanese myth of Ame-no-Wakahiko, this article explores a different moral logic where silence, song, and compassion preserve human bonds beyond verdicts and blame.
When a Promise Matters More Than Power — The Bushidō of Tōdō Niemon
A powerful samurai story from the Battle of Sekigahara that explores why a single promise mattered more than power, reward, or authority—and what true integrity requires to endure.
How People Are Brought into Violence― Not by Nature, but by the Way They Enter
What turns ordinary people into agents of violence? This essay explores how the conditions and “entrances” into war shape human behavior, drawing on historical insight, ethical reflection, and the philosophy of Bushido to reconsider responsibility, dignity, and the direction of civilization.
There Are No NPCs in Japan──A Civilization Built on Dignity — Why Japan Rejects NPC Thinking
Why does Japan have no “NPCs”?
This essay explores the Japanese worldview in which every person is a central, irreplaceable life — rooted in the idea of yaoyorozu no kami and expressed beautifully in Emperor Shōwa’s famous words: “There are no weeds.”A cultural philosophy for the resonance-based civilization emerging today.
Conspiracy Theories and Japan’s Resonant Civilization – Beyond Rationality to a Harmonizing Mind
Explore how Japan’s “resonant civilization” offers a path beyond conspiracy and conflict.
Rooted in harmony, empathy, and autonomous balance, it points humanity toward its next stage of evolution.