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1. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Last post: Japan's outdated model is dead; long live the emerging vision
March 31, 2013
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2. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
In a nation shaken to its core, Japan's leaders offer more of the same
March 24, 2013
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3. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Japan's rollercoaster modern history has kept coming off the rails
March 17, 2013
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4. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Tohoku has been truly rent asunder for untold generations yet to be born
March 10, 2013
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5. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
The days may be numbered for English as a universal second language
March 3, 2013
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6. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Osaka: Japan's latterday second city forever breaks the national mold
Feb. 24, 2013
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7. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Whoever could pass a test to list 'values at the heart of being Japanese'?
Feb. 17, 2013
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8. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Abe's 'unpredictable past' runs counter to his people's remorse over wars
Feb. 10, 2013
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9. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Citizens' lack of resolve leaves nuclear door wide open for next disaster
Feb. 3, 2013
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10. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Read all about it: How Kan-do attitude averted the meltdown of Japan
Jan. 27, 2013
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11. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Citizens' woeful social consciousness ensures a bleak outlook for Japan
Jan. 20, 2013
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12. MEDIA IN JAPAN - ROGER PULVERS
Oshima was in a realm of his own
Jan. 20, 2013
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13. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Beate Sirota Gordon: An American to whom Japan remains indebted
Jan. 13, 2013
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14. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Abe returns to 'retrieve' Japan from its history — or will he just repeat it?
Jan. 6, 2013
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15. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Is juggernaut Japan being driven to destruction (and no one's to blame)?
Dec. 30, 2012
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16. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Beware the nuclear village as it readies to rear-end docile Japan again
Dec. 23, 2012
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17. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Even more than meltdowns; this election is essentially about Japan's war-renouncing Constitution
Dec. 16, 2012
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18. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Chernobyl factored in the fall of a corrupt regime — Fukushima may too
Dec. 9, 2012
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19. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Why is the potential turning point of 3/11 being allowed to slip away?
Dec. 2, 2012
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20. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
First love no use when the last hope for Japan is the chance to marry
Nov. 25, 2012
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21. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
It'll take more than few fine or foreign words to make Australia Asian
Nov. 18, 2012
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22. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Heartening new film will add to rising dementia awareness in Japan
Nov. 11, 2012
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23. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Beware the parallels between boom-time Japan and present-day China
Nov. 4, 2012
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24. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
So, fat cats and a blue caterpillar will save Japan from nuclear hell. OK
Oct. 21, 2012
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25. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
For diplomacy's sake, Japan must bring its big-city dogs of war to heel
Oct. 14, 2012
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26. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
For the young to get on board, Japan's irksome business ways must change
Oct. 7, 2012
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27. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Whatever fanatics say, a nice cup of tea together beats a fight to the death
Sept. 30, 2012
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28. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Evolution revelation sparks MAD inspiration to sucker the (U.S.) soul
Sept. 23, 2012
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29. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Beacons of hope and inspiration light even the darkest pits of despond
Sept. 16, 2012
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30. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Putin's siege-mentality Russia now firmly in the grip of a 'cold civil war'
Sept. 9, 2012
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31. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Prescient work of writer Sawako Ariyoshi begs for rediscovery
Sept. 2, 2012
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32. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Should the public trust Japan's leaders when the 'big one' hits Tokyo?
Aug. 26, 2012
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33. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Monster parents make matters worse for their children and teachers
Aug. 19, 2012
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34. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
New breed of single fathers should be a model for men across Japan
Aug. 12, 2012
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35. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Japanese rice from Down Under forges new hope from historical links
Aug. 5, 2012
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36. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
In our time of global aggression we could learn from the 'Land of Sorry'
July 29, 2012
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37. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto: 'What Japan needs now is dictatorship'
July 22, 2012
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38. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Shades of Meiji surround provincial Hashimoto's growing national profile
July 15, 2012
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39. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
The sorry state of affairs in Japan is enough to turn WGs into FGs
July 8, 2012
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40. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Ryuichi Sakamoto reminds Japanese what's the score on nuclear blame
July 1, 2012
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41. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Fumiko Hayashi: Haunted to the grave by her wartime 'flute and drums'
June 24, 2012
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42. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Might Japan's acquiescence to domestic violence be ending at last?
June 17, 2012
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43. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
The self-styled 'Land of the Free' nurtures yet another facet of hypocrisy
June 10, 2012
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44. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Hush ye not! Here's a heckle of an idea to get rich — and save the world
June 3, 2012
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45. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Nuclear power profiteers seem keen to risk getting blood on their hands
May 27, 2012
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46. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Poverty stalks the land — and its long-term victims will be today's young
May 20, 2012
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47. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Born of disaster, modern architecture is itself now an ongoing disaster
May 13, 2012
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48. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Japan's women are increasingly taking the future into their own hands
May 6, 2012
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49. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Reversing Japan's rising sex aversion may depend on a rebirth of hope
April 29, 2012
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50. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Stalin-era Russian writer penned part of his own death sentence in Japan
April 22, 2012
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