Japan Extension Dreadist Society

Harvey, a fellow blogger on Japan related topics has a blog called Japan Newbie. He has lived in Japan for years and I swing b

Fingerprinting of all Foreigners entering Japan has begun

Yes, its now official all non-Japanese nationals or persons with special privileges and permission inside of or visiting Japan

Japanese Fashion Influenced by Crime

Fool pursuing robbers by disguising yourself as a soda machine, that’s just one of the various “ideas” being

Tokyo Motor Show 2007

The bi-annual Tokyo Motor Show has been going on in Chiba City Japan since October 26th and will official end on November 11th

Japan to fingerprint and photograph all foreigners

Japan is to fingerprint and photograph foreigners entering the country from next month in an anti-terrorism policy that is sti

What did English borrow from Japanese?

The English Language has many loan words from many languages, but we don’t care about those other languages except Japan

In Japan, even Manhole covers are Extraordinary

You must be one special person or set of people to collect manhole covers or pictures of them. But when these manhole covers a

zOMG! I haven’t blogged for 3 days!

Three days ain’t that bad… or is it? I spent the weekend idling, watching anime, dreaming and plotting the demise

Japan related news snippets

It’s Friday, I had a huge late lunch and I am counting down the time for me to leave work. I was as unproductive as ever, sp

40th Tokyo Motor Show 2007

The 40th staging of the bi-annual Tokyo Motor Show 2007 will take place for a whopping 17 days from October 26th (Friday) thro

Otaku smashes ATM screen

When I first read this I thought this was some sick joke are a misunderstanding but it turns out to be true. A young woman in

Environmental Organizations in Jamaica (Blog Action Day 2007)

Today is Blog Action Day, and thousands of bloggers around the web are uniting to put a single important issue on everyoneR

Japan – $317.25 a week for food

Saw this post on a popular blog that I am subscribed to and the post asks “Ever wondered how you rank with the rest of t

The Kind of Blogger I am, What Kind of Blogger Are you?

I’m still not certain how I should feel after my 71% on the Geek Quiz, but I got sent a significantly less geeky quiz to

Japanese on top in Rubik’s Cube world championship

16 year old Yu Nakajima walked away with 5,000 (US$7,000) beating over 250 competitors from 33 countries to be crowned the 200

Japanese Officials Reprimanded for Editing Wikipedia at Work

“The Agriculture Ministry is not in charge of Gundam,” said Tsutomu Shimomura of Japan’s Ministry Agricultur

Pro-Democracy protests in Burma

I rarely blog about such serious topics but it looks like the political situation in Burma (Myanmar) is getting worse and wors

Tokyo Game Show 2007 Cosplaying

Aspiring cosplayers like myself look forward to events like TGS to get a peek into the country that invented the “hobby&

I want to wear Tokyo’s Skyline

Saw this over at sparkplugged today and now I am dieing to get me one of these Jackets. It’s urban, it’s hip, it&#

Proud of my geeky awesomeness

71% Geek Are you proud of yours? take the geek quiz then post your result on your blog or in a comment. ^_^

Nightmare – Raison d’être

I’m big anime fan and to me one of the most important parts of the anime experience is not even the anime itself but the

Tokyo VR Project

Every time I here or see anything related to Virtual Reality (VR) the stupid VR Troopers theme song plays in my head (we are,

Before and After Hurricane Dean – In Japanese

Hurricane Dean caused me to miss one of My Japanese classes and not surprisingly Tomoko sesei used the opportunity to give us

The 2007 World Championships in Osaka Japan has begun

The 2007 IAAF World Championships in Athletics 2007 have started in Osaka Japan and already Jamaica has been up front and gett