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Book review: Family ghosts put to rest

Oct 23, 2024 | taipeitimes.com | John Ross

By John Ross / Contributing reporter Why are so few biographies of famous figures written by their close descendants? After all, they have the best access to documents, diaries and letters, and also access to people involved in the subject’s life. Perhaps it’s because there are family secrets and fault lines best left silent; and there might also be resentments — the rise to becoming a notable figure often involves sacrificing one’s family.
The best books about Japan’s countryside

Oct 8, 2024 | shepherd.com | Amy Chavez |Alex Kerr |Rebecca Otowa |John Ross

This is one of the first books on Japan that I read when I moved to the country in 1997, and it still resonates with me. While still a college student, Alex Kerr buys a rundown farmhouse in the Iya Valley of Shikoku, re-thatches it, and maintains the traditional Japanese architecture of pre-WWII Japanese wooden houses. Kerr went on to write many more books on Japan, most of which have become classics.
Wild Pink's John Ross on 10 songs he's listened to over 100 times

Oct 4, 2024 | brooklynvegan.com | John Ross |Andrew Sacher

Wild Pink‘s new album Dulling The Horns is out today via Fire Talk Records. It finds the band’s gently propulsive indie heartland rock in great form, and it brings in a noisier, heavier, fuzzed-out side too.
A READERS GUIDE TO MEXICO

Aug 29, 2024 | latinolife.co.uk | De la Mora |Lawrence Schimel |John Ross |John Reed

'The Years With Laura Díaz' by Carlos Fuentes (1999), translated by Alfred MacAdamFuentes' epic novel uses one extraordinary woman’s life and loves to sweep through 100 years of Mexican history. Laura Díaz – daughter, sister, wife, mother, lover – comes of age during the long, bloody Mexican revolution in the early 20th century.
¡El rey de las 40 yardas! Xavier Worthy rompió el récord de el Combine de la NFL

Mar 3, 2024 | cms2.record.com.mx | John Ross

Las 40 yardas del NFL Combine ya tiene un nuevo monarca. Los mejores prospectos del futbol colegial buscan seguir demostrando sus habilidades atléticas rumbo al Draft de la NFL y este sábado un joven receptor pasó a la historia. Xavier Worthy ha puesto su nombre en los libros de historia del Combine al marcar el mejor tiempo en la categoría de las 40 yardas con 4 segundos 21 milésimas. Este ejercicio implica correr lo más rápido posible en línea recta hasta alcanzar la marca establecida.
¡El rey de las 40 yardas! Xavier Worthy rompió el récord de el Combine de la NFL

Mar 2, 2024 | record.com.mx | John Ross

Las 40 yardas del NFL Combine ya tiene un nuevo monarca. Los mejores prospectos del futbol colegial buscan seguir demostrando sus habilidades atléticas rumbo al Draft de la NFL y este sábado un joven receptor pasó a la historia. Xavier Worthy ha puesto su nombre en los libros de historia del Combine al marcar el mejor tiempo en la categoría de las 40 yardas con 4 segundos 21 milésimas. Este ejercicio implica correr lo más rápido posible en línea recta hasta alcanzar la marca establecida.
What producing the Formosa Files podcast has taught us

Nov 13, 2023 | english.cw.com.tw | John Ross |Eryk Smith

You’re living in Taiwan in 1895 and the Japanese army is steaming towards the island to take possession. What do you do – resist the new rulers, accept them, or move overseas? This is the kind of tough choice people faced in past centuries, in addition to frequent life-and-death hardships and problems of survival. With the Formosa Files podcast, we try not to be judgmental, not to hold historical figures to modern standards, and to see things in the context of the times.
Mami Suzuki: Private Eye • Simon Rowe

Oct 26, 2023 | bookish.asia | John Ross

In my review of Simon Rowe’s Pearl City: Stories from Japan and Elsewhere (2020), I wrote of the titular “Pearl City” chapter: “It’s a very satisfying story but one that leaves you wanting a full novel. We want to ride with Ms. Suzuki again.”And that’s exactly what we get with Mami Suzuki: Private Eye, a four-chapter foray around Japan in the pleasant company of forty-something Suzuki. She’s a single mother, breadwinner for her mother and kindergarten-aged daughter.
Deposition order and physicochemical process visualization of ink intersections using X‐ray photoelectron spectroscopy imaging for forensic analysis

Jul 8, 2023 | analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Michelle Sullivan |William Pinson |Troy Eberhardt |John Ross

Abstract The physicochemical events at ink intersections are largely understudied. Chemical imaging techniques and multivariate analyses applied to this problem thus far lack the performance characteristics to make confident conclusions about these processes. This deficiency leads to subjective and controversial deposition order determinations in forensic investigations.