Still no end in sight at work. I've spent far too much trying to track down a subtle bug that seems to appear only when I run batch - no...

Japan has had no luck with their Ministers of Agriculture lately. First, Toshikatsu Matsuoka was investigated for embezzlement of public fun...

Via Shisaku , a good article in Reuters here about the slightly insane agricultural policies in this country, especially regarding rice. Th...

(this is the last post about population trends in Japan; the introduction is here and the second part, about population decline, is here ) ...