This article from the Los Angeles Times is about Japan preparing for the next big one in the Tokai region south of Tokyo. The article describes how the lady in the picture below is preparing for this next big earthquake. Is she obsessed or just smart...

I will not be posting for a couple of weeks due to the fact that I will be traveling to Japan. I know, you may be wondering why no posts about Japan since I will BE in Japan. Family obligations and schedules and other factors really will not allow me...

Legendary actors Toshiro Mifune and Shintaro Katsu team up for this final Yojimbo film (Zatoichi meets Yojimbo is the other film between these two). A wandering samurai (Mifune) accepts a mysterious assignment that takes him to the titular mountain...

On a snowy spring day in 1860, throngs of men gather at the gates of Japan's Edo Castle in hopes of assassinating Shogunate leader Ii Naosuke. Upset with the way his life is going, ronin Niiro Tsuruchiyo (Toshiro Mifune) becomes involved in the coup,...

This couple won a contest to have a samurai wedding at a castle. The groom played the part of a feudal lord. The castle is Matsue castle (chidori-jo) in Shimane prefecture. I would have loved to have a wedding ceremony like this but I don't think my...

I will be coming to Japan in one week. Maybe I will see this guy hanging out at Narita. He is Feng Zhenghu, an activist from China. He has been trying to return to China but the Chinese government, without reason, has refused to allow him to re-enter...