Stereo Phone Some fun stats in Asahi Shinbun about cellphone dependency here in Japan in the paper. No, not "do you have a cellphone...

Not my usual fare, I know, but: A guy runs a website that caters to play-by-email boardgame players - backgammon, risk, that sort of thing....

Remember that fake scientific journal I wrote about? The one that looked like a real research journal, with articles made to look like rese...

There's a yearly contest for the best "Salaryman Senryū" (comic Haiku), and this years top ten has just been announced for yo...

Japan Blog Matsuri is a monthly blog roll, where bloggers writes posts around a chosen theme. This months theme is a picture post on your f...

The number of infected is up to 191 people, and a lot of schools are closed for a week. Most infected people are high-school students so I ...

We seem to have Swine Flu The Flu Formerly Known As Prince Swine Flu established in Japan 1 . We got 3 9 12 32 46 59 96 confirmed cas...