Here’s the article in the Japan Times: “High School Principal’s Office Searched Over Alleged E-mail Threats to Woman“ You have to love the quote, “I can kill somebody in cold blood.” I always wondered why people think that’s going to get somebody to come back to you. Another thought, given that the girl is in…
The story in English on Mainichi can be found here:“Exec arrested for saving naked photo of junior high school girl on his mobile phone” It says the guy met the girl online (probably on one of the cell phone dating cites) then offered her a million yen to send him a photo. He got the…
I don’t know if the writer agrees with me completely, but in this article, “Warm Reception May Not Await iPhone in Japan“, a Japan Times journalists voices a lot of the sentiments I wrote about in my blog entry titled “The iPhone in Japan?” last year. I’m still using my trusty Toshiba W52T pictured below…
I think this story isn’t getting as much air time in Japan as it should… not because of the right wing activist angle, not because of the suicide angle, but because a guy took a taxi to the south gate of the Japanese Diet building and… pulled out a gun Ok, maybe I overemphasize with…
Generally in Japan, kids graduate from college in early Spring and then start working on April first. They generally need a lot of training in order to learn the right way to work. It’s not as crazy as people see on tv (like the scene in the first season of Heroes in which Hiro is…
Crash into me with a battleship once, shame on me… crash into me with a battleship twice, shame on… I don’t know… maybe… Defense Minister Ishiba? How is this MSDF collision with Cambodian freighter in Vietnam going to influence calls for Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s dismissal?
New facts about the case California has against Miura keep coming out so I’m not going to try to pull new information out of the news… I’ll just try to give a little perspective from over here. The fact is, a lot of Japanese people are pretty angry about this case. There’s a lot of…
A Mainichi Shimbun poll came up with a 51 percent disapproval rating. 1043 people over age 20 were polled in a random phone survey this weekend. It’s easy for someone to say that they may not actually be over 51 percent given the standard of deviation for the survey, but really… is that how you…
McDonald’s Japan is in trouble now. After having lost a previous lawsuit for overtime pay from a manager, more are coming now from past and present managers who also found themselves effectively being paid less and worked more after promotion. This article out today shows that McDonald’s Japan is going to have to start trying…
This is an update to the story I mentioned in a previous blog post about the Sumo murder case. The stable master Junichi Yamamoto (formerly known by his Sumo name Tokitsukaze) andYuichiro Izuka, Masanori Fujii, and Masakazu Kimura, the three other Sumo wrestlers involved in the assault which resulted in the death of 17 year…
For non-specific reasons, the family of the girl that was the alleged victim of rape by the Okinawan marine has dropped the charges. The family cited reasons such as wanting to maintain privacy, and not wanting to go through the trouble of pursuing the case as reasons for dropping the charges. It may be that…
This is according to an online poll by Japan’s national broadcasting station NHK to determine Japan’s top 100 sports moments. Link is here (Japanese). 1. Shizuka Arakawa wins the gold medal at the Torino Olympics by doing the “Ina Bauer” move. (1539 votes) 2. Waseda Jitsugyo High School defeats Komadai Tomakomai 4-3 for the National…