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This is about as good as sumo gets...the final bout on the final day, both wrestlers are on 13-1 records and fighting for the title: On the ...

2,240 police, 460 patrol cars, and a helicopter - that is, if the policemen are Japanese and their target is suspected of the heinous crime ...

There's a (presumably unintentionally) funny report on Nature's "Peer-to-Peer" blog today. Entitled "Researchers lik...

I've mentioned the scary state of the Japanese legal system before. Here's another lovely story of an obvious stitch-up, where a fo...

"Declines in Tokyo stock prices do not mirror Japan's economic health, senior government officials said Monday after the key Nikkei...

Funny how these things come in a bunch. I've already posted about these vague proposals JT about revamping the visa requirements for J...

As P. Lewis has noted in the comments to this post , we are now half-way through the month of January, so it's time to check up on how P...

It's a question I'm occasionally asked. Well, more often, it's a sort of disbelieving "you can't really read Japanese, ...

This story has has surprisingly little coverage IMO, considering how significant it could be: "The [Japanese] government will aim for ...

There's been a few amusing goings-on in the blogosphere recently. First, Chip Knappenberger commented on an old post , to point out that...