I remember seeing that the most twitters in the world seem to be coming out of Japan so I found a Japanese made twitter search engine. In this case I used http://twitter.1×1.jp and I searched for the word “gaijin” in Japanese. Gaijin is the less nice way to say foreigner. The not so bad way…
Hiroshi Nozaki got away with murder 9 years ago. He killed a Filipina woman, denied having killed her, and in the end was only sentenced to serve 3 and a half years for mutilation and disposal of a corpse. Because very little of the body was found, Saitama Prefecture police decided not to try the…
The reason I say easy big bucks in the title up there is because as the article “Cram School Caters to Kids Gunning for Harvard” because seriously… they are smart enough to accept only kids who are going to get in anyway, right? So they teach them some writing schools, maybe one of the teachers…
First of all, full disclosure.I did my driver’s license in Hyogo Prefecture… I got it on the third try. First I’ll start off by telling you exactly how I failed the first two times. Very simple actually… Failure One: I ran a stop sign… Sounds kind of stupid, but it took me this experience to…
With the extremely successful opening of an Ikea store in Kobe, there was a lot of talk about how the old boys, namely the department stores, home centers, and furniture stores were going to handle coming up against a very unique ad campaign, very low prices, and an international brand. Well, this first, very short…
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…
Japan is all abuzz about this fan seen at the Cubs game He was holding up a sign which said, “It’s Gonna Happen!” on one side, and “Guzen dazo!” on the other side in Japanese characters. Assuming that the English for “It’s gonna happen” is correct, then “Guzen dazo” which sounds more like, “It’s just…
This was big on the morning news shows today. A 43 year old bus driver killed his wife and son. His wife, Crisanta, was originally from the Philippines. Some friends of the family were interviewed saying that Crisanta had talked about their families plans to sell their apartment, move to the Philippines and live off…
The story is that Richard “Scott” Tucker walked into a bar near the apartment building he owned to complain about the noise. He was puched, kicked, and then eventually choked to death. It seems that the perpetrator, Atsushi Watanabe, will get only “a minor punishment” because witnesses say that Tucker was trying to pick a…
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…
Well, this is big news in Japan now right. I feel I have to comment, but I also feel that things are moving too fast. Can we assume that there is overwhelming evidence against the defendent because the US Ambassador to Japan has already apologized to the governor of Okinawa? I am not saying that…
This is an update for the post: Sasebo Shooter was NOT a Foreigner The guy (a 37 year old Japanese man) had a gun permit because he was a competitive skeet shooter. That explains the gun. There are also a lot of reports from people in the neighborhood that say he liked to walk around…