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Dick Samuels
@rjsamuels.bsky.social
Political Science prof @MIT practicing history w/o a license. Teach about Japan, Asian Security, wargaming. Wrote books on local gov't, energy policy, tech and nat'l security, leadership, Japanese grand strategy, 3.11, & Japan's intelligence community
Sunset-- Deer Isle, Maine
August 27, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Just out from Tuttle: by Debra Samuels and Mayumi Uejima-Carr, from the NGO, TABLE FOR TWO. Recipes were developed for more than 1,000 children who took TFT classes on how to cook Japanese food. Great gift. Profits go to TFT. #Japanesefood #Japaneseculture #cookbook
August 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Oguma Shinji, CDP (opposition) Diet member, frankly expresses his outrage at current US trade policy:
April 20, 2025 at 1:05 PM
This is the usually bustling Fulbright desk at the International Studies Association annual convention site in Chicago. Empty. Abandoned. @fravel.bsky.social @dcsneider.bsky.social @profdansmith.bsky.social @dziblatt.bsky.social
March 2, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Same dynamic engineered by Abe/Xi in October 2018 vis-a-vis Trump1.0:
Boost bilat eco coop; collab on 3rd country infra projects;
Dialogue on tech coop w/IP protection; Resume currency swap mechs up to 3.4ty; Resume talks on ECS oil development.
January 14, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Hello non-fiction readers interested in Asian history and spies. Special Duty (Cornell U.P.) traces rise and fall (and current rise) of Japan's intelligence community. Academic, but not pedantic. It's translation has been a best seller in Japan.
December 13, 2024 at 9:56 AM