Off-topic and of somewhat dubious veracity, but if it's true it's too cool not to share: It seems that the son of a certain Michael ...

The new DPJ government is holding a review of government-financed projects. The aim is to cut wasteful spending to shrink the deficit and re...

I'm off to Wako-shi northwest of Tokyo. Wako is not called "The Pearl of Saitama", the birthplace of no celebrities of note an...

Our rice cooker broke the other day. The magic smoke has escaped; it's gone, passed away, pushing up the daisies, taken down the sign, w...

I'm a little preoccupied at the moment; the winds of change are sweeping through the economic and political landscape, and buffeting my...

Busy, busy, but I have to take up an obvious piece of faulty reasoning here. An opinionator in the Swedish daily paper Dagens Nyheter by th...

I realized something interesting about physical and mental distances today. A colleague from Slovenia is visiting ATR (my former workplace) ...