"The Academy Award-winning US director Megan Mylan’s Taller Than the Trees follows the daily life of Masami Hayata, a Tokyo ad executive, who embodies the changes that Japan is undergoing. With his wife frequently out of town for her job as a flight attendant, Hayata takes on the role of domestic caregiver, attending to their … Continue reading Taller than the Trees: The Cost of Oya-koko or Filial Piety
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Masculinity and ‘The Man’
"I got gas in the tank / I got money in the bank / I got news for you baby, you're looking at the man. I got skin in the game / I don't feel no pain / I got news for you baby, you're looking at the man." —The Killers, "The Man." Catchy single. … Continue reading Masculinity and ‘The Man’
