Tag: Japan
Objects in Japanese Pop Culture
The recent theft of costumes and props from an AKB48 set highlights an interesting behavioral pattern. Viewed in a harsh light, it might be seen…
Tokyo Game Show – No, Not The Kind You Win Money By Eating Worms
The Japan Times Online had an interesting article regarding the attendance and aftermath reaction of this year’s Tokyo Game Show (TGS). I’ll let you guys…
Meidonomics
Pat Galbraith has an interesting article about how maid cafes are a bulwark of stability in these troubled economic times. He dryly notes, “Maids in…
Japan’s LDP annihilated
In what can only be described as a landslide election, the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan lost approximately 300 of 480 Diet seats. Taro “Rozen”…
Sir, it appears our portable potty fell to Japan…
From Pink Tentacle – The case of the captured mini-UFO (1972) …Japan has had its fair share of UFO sightings over the years, but few…
Shucks, China’s nuclear experiment gone awry…
From Weird Asia News Japan Section – Monster Jelly Fish Take Aim At Japan …Echizen kurage have shown up…the mass of them gathering now in…