Recent analysis on Japan, sumo, and institutional form.
Why Prime Minister Takaichi Should Refuse to Enter Sumo’s Dohyō |
The Japan Times
A commentary on ritual boundary and political symbolism, arguing that preserving the dohyo’s meaning matters more than modernizing its optics.
What Japan’s Sumo Ranking Document Actually Tells You
The banzuke as institutional document: what sumo’s six-times-yearly hierarchy reveals about how Japan manages status, accountability, and recovery.
Carney Used Takaichi to Launder Xi, Modi
Japan’s democratic credibility as diplomatic cover, and what the sequencing of Carney’s foreign engagements actually signals.
Freedom Ahn 