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1. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
War criminal's son and British 'railway man' bridge war's painful divide
April 8, 2012
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2. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
New tragedy brings to life others still painfully unresolved from long ago
April 1, 2012
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3. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Right and justice shine through the infernal prism of wartime Poland
March 25, 2012
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4. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
There may be no time like the present — but the present's no time at all
March 18, 2012
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5. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Japan's disasters must prompt a radical rethink of citizens' quality of life
March 11, 2012
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6. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
In the realms of true love and devotion, few could fault Akiko Koyama
March 4, 2012
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7. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Welcome to the world we've made but don't want to share with children
Feb. 26, 2012
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8. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Has anything changed? Americans still feel the need for moral supremacy
Feb. 19, 2012
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9. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Depression is a national ailment that demands open recognition in Japan
Feb. 12, 2012
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10. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Facts, facts and more facts: 'Education' in Japan now only befits the past
Feb. 5, 2012
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11. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
In disparity-ridden Japan, don't mind the gaps — just get out of them
Jan. 29, 2012
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12. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Self-effacement is a fine thing, but does Japanese culture take it too far?
Jan. 22, 2012
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13. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Recall, for inspiration, that young people made the last 'Japanese Spring'
Jan. 15, 2012
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14. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Akira 'Harry' Mimura: A life uniquely focused on both sides of the Pacific
Jan. 8, 2012
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15. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
For how much longer will Japan's fate remain in the hands of amateurs?
Jan. 1, 2012
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16. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
It's time to turn over a new leaf in the sheaf of identities we carry with us
Dec. 25, 2011
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17. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Their spirit seems willing but young Japanese are hesitant to get hitched
Dec. 18, 2011
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18. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Japanese artistry, by design, melds time and space into all its creations
Dec. 11, 2011
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19. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
U.S. base plan reveals obsequious Australia's frail sense of nationhood
Dec. 4, 2011
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20. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Jewishness infuses the works of Ben Shahn — even his Japanese ones
Nov. 27, 2011
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21. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
A lost gem found confirms who was the father of Japanese filmmaking
Nov. 20, 2011
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22. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Will trickle-down class discrimination rob Britain of what's so great?
Nov. 13, 2011
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23. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
'American Jesus'
Nov. 6, 2011
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24. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Post-Fukushima, 'they' can no longer be trusted — if ever they could
Oct. 23, 2011
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25. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Don't look back, Tohoku: It's time to look far beyond the Japanese box
Oct. 16, 2011
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26. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Conditions are ripe for the volcano of Japan's betrayed to erupt again
Oct. 9, 2011
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27. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Japan's leaders still don't get it — but whither that 'heretical' 1960s spirit?
Oct. 2, 2011
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28. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Humble pie notably absent from the food fancies of worthies and others
Sept. 25, 2011
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29. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Mako: the Japanese-American actor who fought racist stereotypes
Sept. 18, 2011
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30. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Taro Yashima: an unsung beacon for all against 'evil on this Earth'
Sept. 11, 2011
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31. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
As 9/11 nears, morality dictates we recall victims of America, too
Sept. 4, 2011
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32. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Fame may be fleeting, but warm memories of Miyoshi Umeki live on
Aug. 28, 2011
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33. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Should wartime and peace allow such different attitudes to murder?
Aug. 21, 2011
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34. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Barriers to multiculturalism are as low as they've ever been in Japan
Aug. 14, 2011
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35. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Norway's horrors betray a bigoted ignorance of nationality's meaning
Aug. 7, 2011
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36. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Timely film reiterates the 'no nukes' urgings of Barefoot Gen's creator
July 31, 2011
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37. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
What a difference a friend's tales of 'hair on the heart' can still make
July 24, 2011
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38. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
In charting their life's course, today's youth might better stay foolish
July 17, 2011
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39. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
With Japan at a crossroads, it's instructive to recall the Hidaka affair
July 10, 2011
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40. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Murakami puts a bomb under his compatriots' atomic complacency
July 3, 2011
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41. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Hearn the Westerm misfit finally found himself at home in Meiji Japan
June 26, 2011
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42. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
All hail the Constitution's vacuous guarantee of freedom of thought
June 19, 2011
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43. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Barber's cutting comment denies others' humanity — and hers, too
June 12, 2011
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44. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Doomed self-obsessive remains iconic to some in the Japan of today
June 5, 2011
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45. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Japanese genius shines eclectic in its extravagant simplicities of style
May 29, 2011
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46. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Recalling a generation, and more, sold out by the U.S. masters of war
May 15, 2011
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47. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Hisashi Inoue's great legacy is just the ticket to inspire our best efforts
May 8, 2011
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48. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
It is time to target who calls the shots in Japan when disaster strikes
May 1, 2011
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49. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
Fantasy really is reality in many aspects of Japanese life and culture
April 24, 2011
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50. COUNTERPOINT - ROGER PULVERS
In this time of trials, a new nationalism would aid Japan's recovery
April 17, 2011
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