Haiku and Noh: Journeys to the Spirit World
Haiku poet Madoka Mayuzumi spent a year in Paris from April 2010 to March 2011 as a cultural envoy under a program sponsored by the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs. In February 2011 she took part in two symposiums in Paris, held at the Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris and Association Culturelle Franco-Japonaise de Tenri, titled “Noh and Haiku: Arts of Omission” with two noh performers: waki actor Noboru Yasuda and flutist Satoshi Tsukitaku. Their comments at the symposiums are as follows.
Restoring Political Stability
Several key developments will determine whether the political situation stabilizes over the near to mid-future or will deteriorate further in the face of fiscal and economic woes. The key to ensuring a more stable future will be enforcing greater governance over political parties.
Osaka as a Laboratory for Reform
“Institutional reform” has become the standard panacea for Japan’s chronic political and economic ills. But systemic overhauls are costly, and the outcomes are by no means assured. Devolution along the lines advocated by Toru Hashimoto’s Osaka Restoration Association would allow local governments to experiment with various systems on a limited scale and give the nation a chance to evaluate their efficacy objectively before jumping on the latest reform bandwagon.
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