This brief article just published on CNN doesn’t give us many details, but indicates that the military will go through with the charges accusing a U.S. Marine in Okinawa of “rape of a child under 16, abusive sexual conduct, making a false official statement, adultery, and kidnapping through inveigling.” I’m sure more details will follow…
I am surprised that this case is not getting a lot more airtime than it has otherwise, but if you really think about it, Hawaii is a big travel destination for people in Japan. Now is the time most people are shopping for tickets for package tours to Hawaii and other such destinations because the…
As most people reading this blog know, Japanese officials usually carry out executions before informing the media or next of kin. What I didn’t know until reading this article in Mainichi Online was that Justice Minister Hatoyama has been carrying out executions at a pace of once every two months! Here is the article: Four…
The end result was 70% for handsome but poor, with only 30% choosing ugly and rich. Here’s a link to the article in japanese, but it has some pictures of the girls who were interviewed so you can see what kind of girls want the handsome but poor guys. Of course one good point also…
Sexy Japanese actress Norika Fujiwara has rebuilt a school in Cambodia through her charity organization. The school is large enough for 600 students and is made of concrete. She used the proceeds from her book of essays “Norika Spirit”. Here’s a link to her official homepage: Norika Fujiwara Official Website More importantly sh’s married to…
I reported before the tight relationship I think Google is developing with Japan’s mobile companies. More and more cell phones are using google as their default search. Spearheading this is AU which has tied it’s online email service directly to Gmail, currently offering 6GB of space. The new news states that all mail sent with…
I first saw this on the Nikkei Weekly ITPro News site. It seems that sony is hoping to sell a lot of product by allowing bloggers to write reviews, and use pictures of their products on their blogs.They hope to take on 30,000 affiliate members in an effort to sell at least 2,000,000,000 yen worth…
This Japanese tech news site) reports that Japan’s largest cell phone / mobile phone game site, called Moba-gee (moba for mobile and gee for game), has surpassed 10,000,000 members. Considering that Japan’s population was calculated as 127,767,994, it sounds like there are multiple memberships going on. I’m not sure how they are monetizing the site,…
I have to admit. It’s always seemed a bit funny and surprising to me when I heard friends assert that it wouldn’t rain, even when I could smell it in the air and see the clouds a-coming. I’ve been told on a Sunday that it would snow on Wednesday, and right up until Thursday my…
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…
Note: I emphasize that the perpetrator in this case is Japanese not because it is unlikely but to put emphasis on the fact. While the really big news in Japan is about crimes committed by non-Japanese here, there is a lot of types of crime here which seem to be growing exponentially. Domestic Violence is…
I first saw this in the Google Mania blog here in Japan in this entry. April 7th is Astro Boy’s birthday so Google’s made themselves a nice Astro Boy Google Logo. A must see for fans of old school anime!