I don’t even know what to say about this article… I’m not about to start peeking over bathroom stall doors to satisfy your curiosity! A recent article in Mainichi reports that 40% of Japanese men sit down to pee. Has this kind of survey ever been done in the US? Isn’t it an insult to…
Here’s the story that caught my eye today… “Students use mobile phones over an hour a day for e-mail, Net surfing” (Japan Times) Point one: This headline is misleading because it includes elementary school kids. If you looked at the average times mentioned at the bottom, the average for junior and senior high kids is…
So it’s sad that I have to start off the blog with news like this, but a big part of this blog will be getting to the bottom of some of the big stories in Japan. The real big story is how the media in Japan knee-jerks to reports of a “foreigner” committing crimes. I’ll…