As mentioned on approximately four million other websites about Japan, residents of Obama, Fukui prefecture, have been dancing naked in the streets and hula-ing their way to their local Seven Eleven for more cans of Asahi (probably) following the announcement that Barack Obama is America’s next president-elect:
Meanwhile, it is expected that John McCain is to [...]
In an effort to boost Miyagi prefecture’s renown as a rice-producing area the city of Tome has introduced rice-shaped licence plates for motorcycles:
In a similar move, it is rumoured that Setagaya ward in Tokyo will issue a limited number of licence plates in honour of one of its most famous “products” - Aki Hoshino:
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Whenever Japan’s new prime minister, Taro Aso, is mentioned in English-language newspapers the phrases “right-winger” and “foreign policy hawk” occur with startling frequency. What has he done to deserve such infamy?
Well, Aso is a frequent visitor to Yasukuni, the shrine where many convicted Second World War war criminals are honoured, and he isn’t known for [...]
We’ve been experiencing yet more enormous thunderstorms today. As the pace of climate change intensifies scientists predict that the frequency and destructive power of storms will increase. Compared with other major cities around the world Tokyo is perhaps better equipped than most for extreme weather conditions - after all, it receives almost twice as much [...]
In what has to be the best news story of the week, a Japanese high school student was accosted by a slow loris pygmy monkey while walking home. Even more intriguingly, the student in question looks remarkably like a species of monkey himself:
The student said: “Firstly, the monkey climbed up onto my back, and after [...]
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