Our Hybrid Futures

Here's my latest and last 2009 column for the Yomiuri in Tokyo:
SOFT POWER, HARD TRUTHS / Our hybrid future is here

Roland Kelts / Special to The Daily Yomiuri

Diana Yukawa, 24, is a violinist whose story is film worthy, melodramatically so. In 1985, her Japanese father died in the crash of Japan Airlines Flight 123, the deadliest single-aircraft accident in history. Born a month later, Yukawa was moved to her mother's home country of Britain, where she was raised. But she performed in her...