Japan, he felt, needed to retell its history. He could not accept that his country’s future generations, who had nothing to do with the war, should be destined forever to apologise, as if the world could not move on ECONOMIST.COM
President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump join the Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe and his wife, Mrs. Akie Abe, for dinner at Inakaya restaurant Sunday, May 26, 2019, in Tokyo. (Official White House Photo by Andrea Hanks)
As details about the killer have trickled out, Abe Shinzo’s death has come to look more like a tragic but isolated murder than the opening shot of a political battle. Nonetheless, his death will reshape Japan’s political landscape 安倍晉三遇刺身亡 日本任期最長首相的複雜政治遺產 MOTOKO RICH 22:29
“History is harsh. What is done cannot be undone,” he said. “Our actions brought suffering to the peoples in Asian countries. We must not avert our eyes from that.”
Shinzo Abe, Japan’s Longest-Serving Prime Minister, Dies at 67
Mr. Abe was shot on Friday during a campaign event. Before he left office in 2020, he helped pull his country out of economic malaise but fell short of his most cherished goal: to normalize Japan’s military after decades of postwar pacifism.
After a brief stint at Kobe Steel, Mr. Abe began his political career in 1982, serving as executive assistant to his father, who was then foreign minister.
He married Akie Matsuzaki, a daughter of a former president of Morinaga, one of Japan’s largest confectionary companies, in 1987. The couple never had children.
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A former Roman colony, Arles is full of ruins, including a 4th-century obelisk in the Place de la République in the historic center.Credit...Anthony Lanneretonne
The Yellow House, alternatively named The Street, is an 1888 oil painting by the 19th-century Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh. The house was the right wing of 2 Place Lamartine, Arles, France, where, on May 1, 1888, Van Gogh rented four rooms.
The artist gave prominence to the color during a happy period that produced some of his most famous works. But it can have many different associations, a new exhibition shows.
Vincent van Gogh’s “Wheatfield with a Reaper” (1889)Credit...Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; Vincent van Gogh Foundation
Pablo Picasso had his Blue Period in the early 1900s, a melancholic phase in shades of blue. Van Gogh’s “yellow period,” as one might call it, reflected the warmth of the Provençal sun, but also the artist’s feeling of consolation, hope and optimism during that brief period of his career.
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黃色"的故事說不盡:翻讀《色彩列傳:黃色》Jaune : histoire d'une couleur By [法]米歇爾·帕斯圖羅;顏色的故事‧調色板的自然史 (Color: A Natural History of the Palette By Victoria Finlay);中國/日本/印度.....的顏色
The singer Sabrina Carpenter is among the celebrities who have coated themselves in butter yellow, a color that has lately been used to cheer up sunglasses, dresses, handbags, sneakers and more.Credit...Clockwise from top left; Christopher Polk/Rolling Stone, via Getty Images; Neiman Marcus; Banana Republic; Tory Burch
The singer Sabrina Carpenter is among the celebrities who have coated themselves in butter yellow, a color that has lately been used to cheer up sunglasses, dresses, handbags, sneakers and more.Credit...Clockwise from top left; Christopher Polk/Rolling Stone, via Getty Images; Neiman Marcus; Banana Republic; Tory Burch
of positivity and warmth,” she said, adding that it goes well with many neutral tones — white, navy, brown — that tend to populate wardrobes.
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Inspiring view ... Turner's mythological landscape of 1834, The Golden Bough. Reproduction courtesy of Tate Britain
n fact, Turner's 1834 painting The Golden Bough, owned by Tate Britain, depicts Lake Avernus in Campania, with the Cumaean Sibyl, but no matter. Turner did also depict Lake Nemi, beside which in ancient times stood a sanctuary of the goddess Diana Nemorensis, Diana of the Wood; votive offerings left there can be seen today in the British Museum. The shrine, explains Frazer, was next to a sacred grove. And it's what took place inside the grove that concerns him.
Why does he invoke Turner? To answer this question is to discover the true nature of Frazer's book, The Golden Bough's golden bough. Frazer started his book in the 1880s; Turner had died in 1851. Over the course of the book's successive editions (published in two volumes in 1890, it was expanded to 12 volumes by 1915, and condensed to a mere 714 pages in the author's own abridged version of 1922), the very identity of Turner as an artist changed. In his lifetime Turner had been controversial; people were constantly disparaging his "mustard" yellows and "harsh" light. He was famous as a painter of myth and history: a perspective on Turner of which we've almost lost sight. In 1905, the Tate Gallery exhibited a selection of some of the works left by Turner to the nation that had previously been considered unfinished; in the light of Monet it suddenly looked as if Turner had secretly invented impressionism, yet been unable to make this public in the culture of Victorian England.