So much for the claims that “The Cove” has halted Japan’s dolphin hunt.
Nikkan Sports reports that weather conditions have improved in Taiji and the town’s fishermen have fina...
Cup Noodle follows the path that humans once used when crossing over from Asia into the Americas:
I hope Kimutaku didn’t leave his empty cup in the middle of the forest.
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Akihabara New...
The last Cup Noodle commercial had Takuya Kimura walking through redwood forests. Now he’s in India for a Bollywood-style musical promotion of Cup Noodle’s curry flavor:
The song lyrics ...
Since most Japanese place names are written the same in Japanese and Chinese, one occasionally comes across Chinese links when running kanji search queries through Google News.
While searching for ne...
A TV show visits a restaurant in Nagasaki, Japan’s #1 whale-consuming city:
They start out eating whale sashimi. They are then treated to a course of whale meat shabu shabu (the hotpot, not th...
“Nanikore Chin Hakkei” finds a restaurant in Gunma prefecture that proudly serves mayonnaise ramen:
The woman says it tastes unexpectedly good, and other customers seem to like it.
M...
An interesting video showing the various people who buy sausages from a shop on a train station platform in Osaka:
Thousands of commuters pass through Kyobashi Station in Osaka every day. For 600 of ...
