Our local post office got robbed today, and three people got stabbed - nobody fatally, as luck would have it. The robber wasn't the clea...

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

It's been all over the news lately that Japan's population is now stagnant and expected to shrink over the next generation or so. Th...

There's been a lot in the news lately about two population trends in Japan. One trend is the disappearing countryside and rural towns in...

I posted in my old blog long ago about my first attempt to read Harry Potter in Japanese (which of course failed spectacularly); and then, t...

Below is a picture of a bottle of "Gilbey's" brand gin. Gilbey's gin. Click for larger sizes. It's an inexpensive bran...

This blog is not really a new one, but a continuation of my earlier blog . That blog is cobbled together by a set of perl and ruby scripts a...