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Mitch Bernard

@mkbernard.bsky.social

Political economist, retired Japan specialist, inveterate language learner, cinephile & traveller

Mitch Bernard @mkbernard.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

In a China-obsessed US, Dan Wong’s new book Breakneck is making waves. It echoes the 1980s wave of books on Japan’s rise, warning of threats & lessons for America. The parallels are striking, contrasting “ideal-type” societies — engineering vs. legalistic — to feed the same old American anxieties.

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Mitch Bernard @mkbernard.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Pour les amoureux de littérature, la sortie du troisième tome de la trilogie de Leïla Slimani, c’est de la lecture idéale pour profiter des beaux jours !

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Mitch Bernard @mkbernard.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

How I arrived on Blue Sky

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Mitch Bernard @mkbernard.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

This depends on your approach to the study of 'politics' and the level of the students. For upper-level undergrads as well as grad students I would use assets.cambridge.org/97811089/258...

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Mitch Bernard @mkbernard.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

2024 has been good though not great year for world cinema. Now we'll enter the period where the American film establishment unilaterally gets to put their imprimatur on what we've all seen. Whatever they decide, to me, director Payal Kapadia's complex gem was clearly the year's best

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