July 18, 2008 01:55 by
cg
Gas prices rising in Japan, too. (Conversion: 200 yen per liter is a little more than US$7 per gallon.)
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mdn/all/~3/333446602/20080712p2a00m0na019000c.html
July 18, 2008 01:42 by
cg
Historian Yoshikuni Igarashi explains how two celebrated Japanese comic
book characters embodied the hopes and fears of Japan's postwar middle
class.
http://www.international.ucla.edu/asia/article.asp?parentid=92609
June 15, 2008 04:53 by
cg
Razor Ramon "Hard Gay" tells kids to respect their father on Father's Day, on Japanese TV:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQmq5fjTG4o
(Be sure to watch to the end!)
June 7, 2008 17:20 by
cg
Video on YouTube...100 meter butterfly... with links to more.
Check out the interviews....;)
June 6, 2008 17:18 by
cgWatermelon auctioned for $6,100 in Japan. It's a special black "densuke" watermelon from Hokkaido.