In the U.S., Google’s doing a lot of things geared toward the iPhone… in Japan Google seems to have a connection with KDDI AU for cell phones. AU uses Google Search, and its auone.jp email services (which I suspect uses imap) is powered by gmail. That’s why in a previous post (“The iPhone in Japan?“)…
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…
UFOs ‘definitely exist,’ Machimura asserts (Japan Times) So the Japanese government must be really itching for a way to pull a nice “these aren’t the droids your looking for” on the public to take attention away from the pension problems. Here’s the deal in a nutshell. Everyone in Japan has to pay into a national…
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…