Did someone forgot to take their meds? In the essay titled “Killing Kittens” in the newspaper’s Aug. 18 evening edition, Bando, 48, wrote that she owns three pet cats and…

I came across this fascinating article over at the website of the Japan Policy Research Institute: A Wild Start: Okinawa in the 1970s Excerpts: “Gate Two Street and BC Street…

An interesting article on the current state of affairs: The trafficking scourge “Yet to paint a picture of the victims of trafficking as poor, uneducated women duped into prostitution and…

Found this interesting (and, as far as I can tell, accurate) node over at everything: How to marry a Japanese person The author’s conclusion is that “international marriages do not…

Mixi is a great place to practice your Japanese, Mixi is fairly well thought out. Mixi is a great place to make you feel like you have many Japanese friends.…

Holy shit! I just read a supercritical review of Speed Tribes! By a real Karl Taro hater! Karl Taro does drugs! Karl Taro ineffectively mixes fact and fiction! Karl Taro…

I have a hole in my bottom left molar, I assume from a cavity. I thought I’d wait until I go to Bangkok to get it worked on (medical care…

Rebuilding beef trade with Japan could take years Anybody want to bet how long it is before they find more infected beef and halt importation from the US again? My…

Even though my masochistic hobby of watching horribly shitty movies is fairly wide known, I am still fairly ashamed to say that I sat through the entirety of The Fast…

If you are eating fugu liver pate and start feeling a tingling sensation on your lips or in your mouth, down a cup of hot sake and then immediately slit…

TK is an older guy who works in my office. He’s married, with kids who have long grown up and moved away from the island for the usual reasons; the…