The Girl’s Guide to Decluttering and Hunting (in that order)
Consider these 2 pictures. Before: Single, living alone in a 29 square meter apartment in Tokyo. The place is so filthy it’s a struggle every morning to shower, get dressed…
Scary Things You Never Knew You Didn’t Know About Japanese Halloween
The creators of the YouTube data-driven drama series, Nonalog which "tells the stories of young people finding each other in an overly-connected world" turns its attention to Halloween for a…
Bitcoin CEO Karpeles Arrested But What Is He Guilty Of?
The Japanese police arrested Mark Karpeles, the CEO of Mt Gox, once the world’s largest bitcoin exchange on Saturday morning for inflating his US accounts. But what is he really…
With “The War Bill” Looming, Japan’s Press & Academia Rebel Against Team Abe
Professors Koichi Nakano, Mari Osawa and Manabu Sato visited the FCCJ on Friday to once again explain why more than 95% of political scholars are against this new bill that…
Humanities to be Outlawed at Public Universities
The Japanese government has now decided to systematically remove the teaching of humanities and the fine arts at public universities
This week in Hate Mongering In Japan: Fuji TV wins for Korean mistranslation ‘sans malice’
Another scene had a Korean man reportedly saying the equivalent of the US racist cliche, "Some of my best friends are black." In the scene shown, the man is subtitled…
Japan’s Communist Party Wishes PM Abe Knew Shame or at least the Potsdam Declaration
On Tuesday, the speaker was Japan Communist Party chairman Kazuo Shii, who in many ways expressed more pacifist sentiments than Natsuo Yamaguchi did for the New Komeito.
Pole Dance Tokyo: A Sophisticated Sexiness
Pole dancing is quickly developing a more professional and respected aura around it as a dance form
Anime Jazz: A Japanese Genre that Really Swings
Jazz and anime go together well in Japan---like mayo on Takoyaki. In both “Bebop” and “Kids on the Slope” there’s a visualization of the coolness of jazz that is rarely…
Japan’s State Secrets Laws Empowers The Elite and Muzzles The Press: FOP RIP 12/10/2014
It allows Japan’s 19 government ministries to designate certain information as state secrets. The state secret classification lasts five years, a period that can be extended to 60 years. Any…