Monthly Archives: June 2020

Responsible Non-Adversarial Policing: Community Facilitators

Posted on June 30, 2020 by johnrachel

I’m proposing this in a rapid response to the BLM protests, which seem to lack coherent demands with bulletproof metrics to determine if the authorities are actually complying, or just putting up another smokescreen to pacify the mob. Continue reading →

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Life In Japan: School Lunch

Posted on June 29, 2020 by johnrachel

Here in Tambasasayama, “school lunch” has a special meaning. This weekend, in fact, Masumi-san and I had a “school lunch”. It was at a restaurant set up in one of the schools which is no longer functioning as an educational institution. The population here is shrinking. Fewer and fewer kids means closing schools and repurposing them. Continue reading →

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Life In Japan: Police Power II

Posted on June 18, 2020 by johnrachel

While police in the U.S. are killing fellow citizens, and especially people of color are being terminated by the law enforcement officers who are supposed to protect them, what are the police here in Japan doing? Continue reading →

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