Bulking up in Bush Warbler Valley (The Japan Times)
Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:55:29 GMT
I'd like to improve my grip on sumo wrestling, so when a friend invites me to watch the big boys tussle through a morning practice, I jump at the chance. I get off at Uguisudani (Bush Warbler Valley) Station on the Yamanote Line, where the station-identity jingle is of this warbler's mellifluous chortle which heralds spring in Japan. A flock of uguisu (aka Japanese nightingales) are said to have ...
Campaigners criticise proposals to define palm oil plantations as forests (Global Witness)
Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:41:52 GMT
Environment ministers from more than 100 countries meeting this week in Bali must oppose initiatives from Indonesia and the EU to reclassify oil palm plantations as forests (1) , said the Ecosystems Climate Alliance today.
Crime › Police arrest wrong woman for supermarket theft (Japan Today)
Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:56:36 GMT
Police admitted Tuesday that they had mistakenly arrested a woman in her 40s in January for a theft she didn't commit at a supermarket in…
Something To Declare: The best of Japan; Bolivia; North America via Iceland; The Djibouti express (Independent)
Sat, 20 Feb 2010 11:32:41 GMT
Nara celebrates the 1300th anniversary of its becoming the capital of Japan this year, with a programme of events and exhibitions including guided walks of the city, special exhibitions and lectures at some of its temples, and events in the wider prefecture (district).
Pacific scoreboard for the March 14 edition (Stars and Stripes)
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:07:10 GMT
Japan Baseball Friday's score At Camp Zama Zama American 14, Robert D. Edgren 6 Boys soccer Friday's summaries ...
The Gardens of Japan: earthly paradise (Daily Telegraph)
Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:52:29 GMT
Japan's social history can be traced through Kyoto's gardens, finds Helena Attlee.
Japan's top web forum an outlet for free speech -- and hate (Independent)
Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:49:25 GMT
Japan's biggest Internet forum, where anonymous netizens trade anything from cooking tips to death threats, has long been an anarchic zone of uninhibited free speech and a magnet for controversy.
Japan's web forum city (iafrica.com)
Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:37:17 GMT
Japan's biggest internet forum has always been a zone of anonymous anarchy and free speech.
A rogue on high (The Japan Times)
Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:55:14 GMT
In real life, Ishikawa Goemon was the leader of a band of burglars in Kyoto who was caught in the summer of 1594 trying to kill Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the foremost politician of his day, and was duly executed at age 36 along with many members of his family and his gang. Interestingly, that execution in the Kamo River bed at Sanjo — achieved by throwing the victims into caldrons of boiling oil — was ...
National › 14-year-old girl believed to have killed herself due to bullying (Japan Today)
Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:00:04 GMT
A 14-year-old girl jumped off an apartment building and killed herself last month in a possible attempt to escape from bullying at school, the local…
