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This must be pretty abnormal (will it last until January?), but I don't know how significant it really is. Reuters says there have bee...

I've just had the interesting experience of taking part in a multi-way discussion for a radio show (my only previous similar experience ...

Tokyo Millenario is a long-established traditional lighting display which is installed in the middle of Tokyo for a week at the end of each ...

("crash" seems more appropriate than "decline", somehow) As a further update to my previous post , it looks like the dec...

The big shrine in Kamakura, Hachiman-gu , has two large ponds in front of it. The biggest has three large islands, which until recently had ...

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As I mentioned recently , Japan's population is expected to drop substantially in the coming years. According to this this Japan Times a...

From Treehugger I find this "Electro-Kinetic Road Ramp" which promises free power generation due to the action of cars passing o...

Chris Masse tipped me off that the new Nature contains this article by Jim Giles talking about Wikipedia, and in particular comparing its ...

One thing that Japan really isn't very good at is banking (UK residents who think their banks are bad, like those who think the National...