Look up — there, in the moon, is a spreading banyan tree and a young man. The man’s name is Cuoi, and when he was young, long before he lived on the moon, he was a regular boy who lived on ...

For East Asia, Japan's militarists had in mind those places heavily touched by Confucianism (China, Taiwan, Korea and Japan), plus Indochina, the Malay Peninsula ... but the banyan tree serves ...