Why walk inside an airport terminal when you can ride a rickshaw instead:
All Nippon Airways Co. began a weeklong service Sunday to carry passengers by rickshaw in a retro atmosphere to departure gat...
An embarrassing error in Tim Kelly’s article for Forbes about the Noriko Sakai drug scandal:
Though discussed little in public, estimates put Japan’s regular drug users in the millions. A...
English language school chain Nova has a new commercial for its kids’ classes:
The infamous Nova usagi is back, joined by a blonde foreigner speaking with a heavy gaijin-san accent.
The end of...
A kid was allowed to vote in Osaka yesterday:
The 11-year-old elementary school girl, who visited a poll station in Osaka’s Nishi-Yodogawa Ward with her father, voted for a party in a proportio...
TBS TV news reports on how a company is rushing to produce merchandise related to Japan’s soon-to-be Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama:
A company that makes novelty tea mugs featuring a timeline of...
The “Mezamashi TV” morning show recently had this countdown of the top 5 hotels for railway fans:
1. Keio Plaza Hotel Sapporo – This hotel overlooks Sapporo station. You can see t...
CNN’s Morgan Neill takes a look at the konkatsu craze that’s currently sweeping Japan:
Embedded video from CNN Video
Nozomi Okabe, the woman featured in the video, is seeking a husband w...
A day after NTV aired its show about taking Hugh Jackman to Tsukiji so he could enjoy sushi, Fuji TV’s “Mezamashi TV” morning show aired its own Hugh Jackman interview segment. They...
When does garbage become artifact?
I took the photo above at a place called sawa-do-touge æ²¢åº¦å³ , a small clearing located on a ridge that runs between Otaki and Mitake villages in Nagano...
An interesting discovery I made yesterday while sampling the many Ken Shimura comedy clips available on YouTube:
Those of you who left comments expressing frustration with the use of black facepaint ...
