Not that this post attempts to establish any link between the three, I should note. First, Jake Adelstein (author of “Tokyo Vice”, which you should read now) has an interesting piece up about so-called “yakuza fan magazines”. I’d wondered...

Oshio Manabu’s likeness as drawn by Fuji TV’s court reporter is the absolute spit of Da Pump’s Issa, FWIW. Also: wonder if Oshio was going grey before recent events and he’s been denied access to (or seen it as prudent to stop using) hair dye?...

Good Ideas Salon, Tokyo - Eventbrite: Peter Rojas (Engadget/gdgt) is among the speakers. At the Claska hotel in Meguro. Tempted to show if I can make it.

I received a mostly form response from Amazon about the feedback I sent them on the Kindle. The salient part was the as-expected confirmation that “[t]he content owners do decide on the availability and the price in which” — and at the moment...

The announcement that the Kindle is going on sale in Japan had me excited. I mostly read English-language books and there understandably aren’t many bookshops that stock much of a range in Tokyo. So I habitually order books from Amazon Japan. This...