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Now my father is in the biz, so I know mistakes can obviously happen in any newsroom, but for the life of me I can’t figure out how some editor (or intern?) substituted Japan for Hong Kong in the headline for a story of yet more SARS-related deaths in Hong Kong, as pictured above (the [...]

The resemblance isn’t particularly striking, so I’ll alert you to the fact that this is supposed to be Ronald Reagan, circa the days he was public enemy number one in my book. I mentioned yesterday that on the way to Kazo, we got sidetracked by the sight of a huge 100-yen shop, and ended up [...]

This is a couple of weeks old now, but I only just got around to scanning this from the August 27th print edition of The Yomiuri Shimbun. What this graph is a detail of (click on the image for a larger view) is, in its entirety (it took up 80% of a single newspaper page), [...]

I found this on the side of a cigarette vending machine. Save that, what else is there to say?

An insightful article in today’s Japan Times by economist Noriko Hama that looks into the hermetic machinations of many Japanese corporations, in light of the recent scandals plaguing this country’s business world. She hangs her argument on Nippon Ham’s recent troubles, but her argument extends further: The Nippon Ham incident is a symptom of a [...]

Kiyo over at KEC Journal suggested that I should blog about the different “cleanliness-conscious aspects” between Japan and America. He’s been on a “toilet” kick recently, and a few days ago mentioned that Japanese are cleanliness-conscious, and I begged to differ. (As an important aside, let me strongly urge you to visit Kiyo’s blog if [...]