Nick Kapur
@nick_kapur
Historian of Japan and East Asia. I only tweet extremely interesting things. Also on bluesky - search for my name.
It’s been said before but it’s still really funny that a country of people with some of the easiest lives on earth voted to elect the candidate that ran on shutting down all the universities and work from home jobs to send everyone back into the coal mines
The entire State Dept office of multilateral nuclear affairs was dismissed last week, Alexandra Bell tells @CFR_org. “These were people responsible for efforts to ban explosive nuclear testing, the production of weapons grade material, people working on nuclear disarmament…
🚨 SENATOR DURBIN: The FBI was specifically instructed to flag all Epstein documents that mentioned Trump’s name.
🚨🚨🚨 Watch Jeffrey Epstein plead his Fifth, Sixth, and 14th Amendment rights when asked if he and Donald Trump socialized with females under the age of 18 during a 2010 deposition: Q: Have you ever had a personal relationship with Donald Trump? A. What do you mean by "personal…
Great piece on the phenomenon of a majority of Ivy League graduates going into management consulting, finance, or tech, despite their actual skills or interests: "I'm a Student at Harvard. Almost Everyone I Know Wants the Exact Same Type of Job" slate.com/life/2025/07/h…
A major issue in the recent Japanese election was the price of rice. The doubling of the rice price in the past year is especially salient since Japanese ppl have to spend far more of their total consumer spending on food than people in comparable nations:
Japanese analyst: Trump wanted to showcase a major "win" amid dissatisfaction over the Epstein files. Watanabe Tsuneo of Sasakawa Peace Foundation posted: 「President Trump is currently in a difficult position regarding the release of information related to American billionaire…
On top of everything else, Japan's right-wing populist Sanseitō party wants to destroy Japanese anime and manga by turning it into propaganda: "The Ministry of Culture shall ensure that manga, anime, and games are developed in a healthy way as a form of culture, rather than…
Today I learned that the exact same Boeing 727 airplane that was hijacked by Japanese "Red Army" terrorists and flown to North Korea in March 1970 was later used by rock band U2 in their 1997 "PopMart" world tour. 🤯