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I was somewhat amused to find upon my return from America that while I’d been away, this post of mine from 4 years ago about “September 11th” enjoyed some linkage on various blogs — linkage I might add that it never got at the time of writing. I was amused in part because about a [...]

I haven’t seen this reported yet in any of the English-language Japanese media but this story has piqued my interest. On July 21st, during an evening news story about the notorious Imperial Japanese Army unit “Unit 731″, Japanese broadcaster TBS inadvertently (or not) briefly included an image of current Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe, who [...]

Sako points to this stinging op-ed piece on the incarcerations at Guantanamo Bay by the Washington Post’s Richard Cohen (the WP unfortunately requires registration but it’s worth it to read this for yourself). A tiny excerpt: The revelations coming out of Guantanamo are hideous. The ordinary abuse of prisoners, the madness instilled by gruesome incarcerations, [...]

Mind you, I’m not bothered in the slightest that I can’t access Bush’s website, I’ve never until tonight tried to access it before and I suspect I never will again (but being the good reporter I am, I have just viewed the site via proxy). Why the Bush camp decided to ban overseas visitors from [...]

Sorry, it’s admittedly not very thought out nor well-executed but Santa Claus was the most interesting of several bearded visages that crossed my mind upon seeing the Hussein pic, others being Abraham Lincoln, Uncle Sam, Jesus, and yeah, Osama.

I’ve written about this before as it relates to Japan, but last week the Yomiuri Shinbun reprinted a story from a Chinese newspaper on China’s suicide rate, which included some staggering statistics (roughly translated but I think you’ll get the idea) . According to numbers released by doctors working at the Beijing Psychological Crisis Research [...]