‘Japanese News’ Archives
Japanese デリヘル Delivery Health
Ever taken enough time in lawson 7/11 or FamilyMart to actually check out the magazines they're selling? If you're like me you probably haven't. But just the other day out of complete boredom I did just that. Ok, so the vast majority of the magazines are women's beauty and glamour mags and most of the rest are men's gravure or porno [...]
Shinjuku Halloween Protest 2009
Let me first point out that I am not the original source for this picture. If you would like to see more of the original sources pictures or read the story please go here. Well, others may have experienced this but it's a first for me. I have never participated in the annual Yamanote line Halloween party and after what happened this [...]
Killer Fluffy White Clouds
Supertyphoons to Strike Japan Due to Global Warming Increasingly powerful "supertyphoons" will strike Japan if global warming continues to affect weather patterns in the western Pacific Ocean, scientists say. Supercomputer simulations show there will be more typhoons with winds of 179 miles (288 kilometers) per hour—considered an F3 on the [...]
Teacher deserves “Old School” punishment
Junior high school teacher arrested for molesting student during Hokkaido getaway (original Mainichi Daily News) SAPPORO -- A junior high school teacher has been arrested for molesting a junior high school girl while on a trip together, police said. Naoya Tashiro, 51, a teacher at a Sendai municipal junior high school, stands accused of [...]
Dumb & Dumber
Some of you will recall my earlier blog post about the DPJ defeating the LDP in the recent election. In that post I said something to the effect of "we will have to wait and see if the DPJ ends up being any better than the LDP." Well if the past few days are any indication that question is still very much up in the air. On the one-hand, [...]
A Vote in the Right Direction
Ozawa positive about granting local voting rights to non-Japanese. see original article here . I'd say that, if true, this would certainly be a move in the right direction. However, the article goes on to state that "bringing to the Diet may not be easy because Kokumin Shinto (People's New Party), one of two junior ruling coalition [...]
My Neighbor Totoro Has Swine Influenza
Once again the entire country of Japan has decided to freak-out about the Swine Influenza and all of the Japanese housewives and mothers have frantically busted open their piggybanks and purchased hundreds of thousands of flu masks in a matter of just a few days. One day everyone will be walking around like normal and then the very next day [...]
DPJ wins landslide victory, Crushes LDP, Taro Aso
The Democratic Party of Japan wins the Lower House election by a landslide, ending more than half a century of almost uninterrupted rule by the Liberal Democratic Party. Can't say I'm not happy because I am. Let's face it Taro Aso destroyed the LDP and perhaps Japan in the process. I haven't heard such negative sentiment from Japanese [...]
