Well, I took advantage of a late night to do some light internet reading. Although I don’t often read news about Japan in English, tonight I was in the mood so I checked some of my RSS feeds for interesting articles. I came across a few that I don’t really want to link to, but […]
#RealJapan hashtag for Twitter and Media Representations of Japan Read More »
I use google alerts as a great way to get news about certain specific topics that I have an interest in. I have a google alert for “kindle japan” because I’ve written about my what I want from the Kindle in the past, my wish that it would be able to handle manga, and that
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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.
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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
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I’ve been in Japan close to 15 years now, so when I read a recent article in The Telegraph about JR (Japan Railways) starting a campaign to improve people’s manners on trains, the following paragraph: Five years ago, it would have been unthinkable for passengers on Japan’s crowded trains to witness a female office worker
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If you watch the video, you’ll here some wacky stuff. Now maybe I don’t go to enough “hi tech” buildings to have used the “smart toilet” but this is the kind of over-generalized news about Japan that drives me crazy. Here’s the video about the crazy robo-toilets that are “commonplace” in Japan these days. If
National Geographic Story – Japanese Toilets and Robo-toilet Nonsense Read More »
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
Japan makes CNN’s front page again with another story about escorts Read More »