Catching up with German Ambassador to Japan Hans Carl von Werthern. He served his country and this post since March 2014 and retired in June 2019. I knew him since his diplomatic work in Beijing […]
The reality star and super celebrity just announced that she would reconsider naming her new shapewear “Kimono” out of respect for Japan’s real kimono culture. That’s it. There will be no trademarked US brand ‘kimono’ […]
Ever been told to ‘dress up’ for work? Nah, more like an unspoken agreement. Men in suit, with tie and polished shoes; women in attire and high heels. No, wait, that “high heels” thing is […]
There is a dog epidemic in Tokyo. In Japan, dogs have to be registered. However, no one really controls you, and many owners who have multiple dogs, let alone dog hoarders, just register one. Therefore, […]
Since there are so few firearms in public circulation, the preferred weapon of slaughter and mayhem in East-Asia is the knife. Just google knife attacks in East-Asia. A 50-years-old man run into a group of […]
To say that this trip was awesome would be an understatement. Donald Trump just had the best Japan trip of any foreign president. Abe Shinzo treated him to a Sumo Grand Champions match. A higher […]
Tokyo’s famous Shibuya Crossing has an image problem. In fact, the entire area around Shibuya station has turned infamous and I will tell you why. The Japanese papers are full of it. Constant reports about […]
US president Donald Trump is set to state-visit Japan this Saturday. Among the pleasantries of his stay will be two events of cultural significance. First, Donald Trump will attend a Sumo wrestling match. Second, Donald […]
Prevent pregnancies, Abort your unborn, Forgo children. Western propaganda has forced Japanese women into childlessness. Japanese women, too many of them, believe they shouldn’t have offspring. Childlessness, or the nuclear family (one child, not enough […]
The world’s media is reporting what seemed impossible to report in the West just yesterday. A Japanese leader, Shinzo Abe, stands up to the mighty USA and asks the West to be named correctly: Abe […]
Mass hysteria today at Japan Today, the online portal for News in Japan. My opinion piece entitled ‘Political Correctness Preventing Child Births in Japan’ caused a militant leftist backlash. I was smeared, slandered, and compared […]
Abe Shinzo, not Shinzo Abe! Japan feels it is emancipated now and doesn’t need old Western colonial rules about names. In the past, when the West ruled the world, the West enforced its own preferences […]
In the past, sexploitation by white folks in Asia was all-too-known, but nobody outside the foreign conclaves — for example Chaoyang in Beijing, Roppongi in Japan, or Kowloon in Hong Kong — could really see […]
If there has ever been a more annoying bighead since the retarded Teletubbies, it’s got to be the Japanese mascot Chiitan [Tchee-tan]. Chiitan is not cute. It doesn’t look remotely like a fairy baby otter. […]
Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation in Osaka aired a program where a customer of a restaurant was asked about his/her gender. When he, or she, declined, the comedy duo of the show pushed the matter, even touching […]
This is not your usual list. We all have heard what’s “cool” in Japan. There is even Shinzo Abe’s governmental initiative: “Cool Japan.” It’s sushi, sakura, sumo, anime, manga, shinkansen, cosplay and the other usual […]
This scared the kami out of Shinzo Abe’s good night sleep. US president Donald Trump threatened, in good jest, Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe over Japan’s declining population and low fertility rate: I can send […]
The Japanese phrase 自己責任 jikosekinin is usually translated as “self-responsibility” but can also mean the absolute accountability for one’s own actions. In India they would say “karma,” in Germany “Selbstschuld,” in America, perhaps, “one’s own […]
There is a lot of slang to describe foreigners obscenely infatuated with Japanese culture, but these are the definite three most common terms: An otaku is a Japanese geek, usually emerged in video games, collectibles, […]
TOKYO - A 21-years-old sympathizer of the AUM cult drove a mini car into pedestrians on a busy road in beautiful Harajuku district. The terror attack took place on busy Takeshita Street at around ten […]
The USA is occupying Japan since 1945, but nobody wants to call it “occupation” now. Why? According to Associate Press, the US foreign policy press agency, there are currently 50,000 US soldiers stationed on Japanese […]
Japan gets serious about Artificial Intelligence: Welcome to the Japanese 5.0 Society! 1. BASIC IDEA OF AI STRATEGY OF JAPAN The Japan 5.0 Society should be a human-centric AI society, meaning that AI should serve […]
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, Logan Paul traveled to Japan, haha. What a mess! Our Japanese Man Yuta has the update: It goes without saying that Youtube fully supports Logan Paul’s behavior […]
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