At about 5:35 pm, in Niigata a snake caused a black out in about 1,190 locations for as long as 2 hours in some places. The snake died of electrocution related injuries.
A representative from the Tohoku Electric Company commented that the snake, which had worked its way into a plastic safety covering on the wires was probably looking for some food.
Many Japanese news media outlets are reporting that Ai Kago (age 23), formerly of Morning Musume attempted to commit suicide on September 11th. She was found in her apartment in Roppongi in Tokyo by a member of her talent agency. The agency member then immediately called 119 (the equivalent in Japan to 911) for an…
I’ve commented on this phenomenon before. I sit here in Japan reading and watching the news. We’ve got the full gambit of news. Top stories include the brutal murder of a professor on a college campus, Diet members sneaking cameras into closed-door meetings, internet death threats against a champion Sumo wrestler, a sex scandal involving…
The title should say it all, but sadly it doesn’t. The teacher in question is a pregnant woman in her thirties. She works at a junior high school in Handa City in Aichi Prefecture. During the beginning of third term (January) this year she scolded some students in club. She also did a seating change…
Japan’s Yomiuri news reports that the accused whistle blower, who posted a video of Chinese and Japanese ships having an altercation, reportedly told authorities that he sent an SD Card with footage of the incident to CNN’s Tokyo office. He sent the package anonymously, but when CNN never broke the story or televised the video,…
This time they throw in the term “geisha guys” for creditability. Check the article here, entitled: Japan’s ‘geisha guys’ the latest accessory CNN could report on stories about the Prime Minister’s approval rating, the murder of the taxi driver by a U.S. marine, even the murder of the Filipina hostess I wrote about just today…
This is easily the best April Fool I’ve seen this year… I like it because it takes people’s misconceptions about Japan and smacks them over the head with them like a big Hokkaido salmon. Digital World Tokyo (which seems like a great website that I’ve only just discovered), wrote this article on April 1st….