Lately I have had far more studying and working to do, and so blogging has taken a back seat. But with the incessant stream of drama queener....
11 Mar 8:31 am  from  Katie's Japan Files   [Profile] [Recent] 

Another world news story involving Japan hit the streets in the past 24 hours and made me smile.  As soon as I read the headline “Japan c....
10 Mar 8:53 pm  from  Big in Japan   [Profile] [Recent] 

Exhibit 1. Michelle Malkin’s blog (hat tip to Adamu):Fully one-quarter of the space on this year’s [U.S. Census] form is taken up with q....
10 Mar 6:30 pm  from  Mutant Frog   [Profile] [Recent] 

Japan's Okinotori Island, which has a Tokyo postal address even though it lies roughly 1,770 kilometers south of the capital and it is actua....
10 Mar 4:04 pm  from  Okinawa Expatriate   [Profile] [Recent] 

Video: Fujita as a guest on a conspiracy theorist radio program The Washington Post has run an editorial asking why the hell 9/11 truther ....
10 Mar 12:57 pm  from  Japan Probe   [Profile] [Recent] 

PRIME MINISTER Hatoyama’s plummeting poll ratings, the growing possibility that the ruling Democratic Party of Japan will be unable to cap....
10 Mar 1:39 am  from  ampontan   [Profile] [Recent] 

The Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), which came to power with a promise to stamp out old patronage politics, is now engaging in a more expli....
9 Mar 8:09 am  from  Okinawa Expatriate   [Profile] [Recent] 

The Academy Award results are in, and it appears that award for best documentary went to The Cove, a film about American animal rights acti....
9 Mar 6:10 am  from  Japan Probe   [Profile] [Recent] 

The story continues...From today's Japan Today:"The Cove," a U.S. film about a controversial annual dolphin hunt at a Japanese town, won the....
8 Mar 7:09 pm  from  Visual Anthropology of Japan   [Profile] [Recent] 

THE COURSE OF EVENTS in contemporary American politics has led again to talk of forming a third party in that country. Even those sympatheti....
8 Mar 2:35 am  from  ampontan   [Profile] [Recent] 

Embarrassing stat of the day: The Inter-Parliamentary Union came out with its latest survey results on gender breakdown in lawmaking this we....
6 Mar 4:37 am  from  TokyoMango.com   [Profile] [Recent] 

Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage talks to a Japanese TV program about the U.S.-Japan alliance and the issues surrounding t....
5 Mar 10:30 am  from  Japan Probe   [Profile] [Recent] 

TYPE THE WORD “bullying” into Google and the first auto-suggestion to pop up for a search is “bullying in Japan”. The Japanese are m....
2 Mar 7:13 pm  from  ampontan   [Profile] [Recent] 

Masuzoe Yoichi spoke at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan yesterday, where he again highlighted the LDP’s need for reform. With ....
2 Mar 10:13 am  from  Guyjin.me   [Profile] [Recent] 

In short, if the world economy is to get through this crisis in reasonable shape, credit worthy surplus countries must expand domestic deman....
26 Feb 3:18 pm  from     [Profile] [Recent] 

I spent some time at APEC Junior Conference, held in Hiroshima's Peace Park from February 20th to the 23rd, as talented youngsters represent....
26 Feb 3:00 pm  from  Get Hiroshima   [Profile] [Recent] 

Former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba is not happy about having his home prefecture referred to as “Japan’s Tibet”: Ishiba, currentl....
26 Feb 6:34 am  from  Japan Probe   [Profile] [Recent] 

Toyota’s Chief Executive Officer Akio Toyoda testified yesterday about safety and quality control after his company recalled 8.5 million c....
25 Feb 6:07 am  from  Okinawa Expatriate   [Profile] [Recent] 

Snap your finger and I’ll turn you some flips. I’m your puppet. Your every wish is my command. All you gotta do is wiggle your little ha....
24 Feb 11:53 pm  from  ampontan   [Profile] [Recent] 

During bad times, the blame game is the biggest game in Washington. Wall Street "greed" or "predatory" lenders seem to be favorite targets t....
23 Feb 4:19 pm  from  Okinawa Expatriate   [Profile] [Recent] 

I don’t belong to an organized political party. I’m a Democrat. - Will Rogers, American humorist AMERICANS ON BOTH SIDES of the politica....
22 Feb 11:00 pm  from  ampontan   [Profile] [Recent] 

Hiroshi Nakai （Chairman of the National Commission on Public Safety/Minister of State for Disaster Management/Minister of State for the A....
22 Feb 8:28 pm  from  Japan Probe   [Profile] [Recent] 

Yesterday, the president touted the now-$862 billion economic “stimulus” on its one-year anniversary. He sung its praises to high heaven....
21 Feb 4:00 pm  from  Okinawa Expatriate   [Profile] [Recent] 

Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirofumi Hirano says the government may not end up with what is best for people in Okinawa when selecting th....
21 Feb 8:01 am  from  Okinawa Expatriate   [Profile] [Recent] 

Japan's defense minister has reaffirmed that the government is not considering transferring the US Futenma Air Station to the western city o....
21 Feb 7:53 am  from  Okinawa Expatriate   [Profile] [Recent] 

The coalition Cabinet is divided over a proposal to relocate U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Okinawa Prefecture to the inland secti....
21 Feb 7:50 am  from  Okinawa Expatriate   [Profile] [Recent] 

THE RESIGNATION OF Finance Minister Fujii Hirohisa last month resulted in a minor Cabinet reshuffle in the Democratic Party of Japan-led gov....
20 Feb 11:41 pm  from  ampontan   [Profile] [Recent] 

On television last night I watched my favourite program, “If I were Prime Minister”, which instead of the usual format of debating a pol....
20 Feb 10:44 pm  from  What Japan Thinks   [Profile] [Recent] 

"I used to think it would take a great financial crisis to get both parties to the table, but we just had one," said G. William Hoagland, a ....
20 Feb 9:09 am  from  Okinawa Expatriate   [Profile] [Recent] 

In the latter days of the Carter presidency, it became fashionable to say that the office had become unmanageable and was simply too big for....
20 Feb 9:01 am  from  Okinawa Expatriate   [Profile] [Recent]