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My new friend Maliha over at Lightness of Being... has sent me a meme tag. Maliha, I usually hate this kind of stuff, but in the spirit of ...

In an article in the Japan times talking about the apparent lack of sex in Japan resulting in a declining birth rate, a Japanese researcher ...

Not long after I arrived in Japan in 1998, North Korea test-fired a missile, part of which flew over Japan and landed in the Pacific Ocean. ...

Apparently a fight broke out after a public screening of Japan's World Cup loss to Australia last night. According to the report, at the...

Several Japan-related items have caught my attention recently. I'm sure if I stare at them long and hard enough some sort of pattern wil...

Now this is something I didn't know. According to this aricle in The Times , the village of Shingo, in northern Japan, claims to be the ...

I've never quite been able to figure out what to do with this blog; I haven't been able nail down a certain writing style or even an...

It occurred to me tonight, after several beers and while listening to Opeth, that I've become too polite. Obviously a symptom of living ...

This recent headline caught my eye: Ice Hockey: Japan powers past Israel in Group A . Not exactly the Olympics or the NHL Playoffs , but it...

Mmm... I wonder what my buddies over at the Korean Central News Agency of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea are up to these day...

As if my simple recommendation weren't enough to bestow greatness upon them, my friend Pierre over at Loser's Guide has asked me wh...

Please go buy any and all albums by Drive-By Truckers .

This from the CBC: Minuteman volunteers to patrol Canada-U.S. border for illegal migrants . I guess things are falling apart in Canada, forc...

There's nothing more obnoxious than a zealot, and new types seem to be springing up daily. Take IOC anti-doping czar Dick Pound, for exa...

Jeremy Roenick , 35 year-old NHL veteran, on not being named to the American men's Olympic hockey team: "It would be a travesty if ...

The lovely young woman on the left is none other than (following Japanese name forms) Aoi Sora (link NSFW), which means "Blue Sky...

... we've been hearing about kidnappers threatening to kill their peace activist hostages , more US marines killed by roadside bombs , a...

Well, I was scheduled to be flying home for a visit to Canada tomorrow, but there's this big honkin' typhoon parked off the southern...

"Ground Self-Defense Force troops deployed in Iraq for reconstruction assistance cannot vote in the Sept 11 general election because th...

To be fair, this kind of shit is not exclusive to Japan-- 6-month-old girl dies from heat in car while mom plays pachinko , but apparently t...