Mona Nomura (@mona), noted geek blogger/twitterer, creates a brilliant juxtaposition of kanji and geekiness that tests your visual imagination and knowledge of geeky stuff in one highly amusing post.

A short story about a mostly Japanese-American Unit that during WWII

Toyota joins the long list of Japanese companies to pull out of F1...

November's

Stumbled upon this mini-documentary on Hulu about high school baseball in Japan. It's very well done and a fascinating look at the hysteria around the sport.

If these videos (and photos) do not convince you to visit it I don't know what possibly can. Just watch/listen and enjoy.

How bad has the jellyfish problem gotten? So bad that a three man fishing boat capsized when trying to pull a net full of jellyfish in.

Translation of an interesting Japanese article about how there was no garbage in the Edo Period. Everything got recycled, from umbrellas to scraps of paper to human excrement.

I used to think that white people were evil. The bad of the world, as it was explained to me, often had a white face. But, during that time, somehow, genuine hate never crept into my heart. Then I come to Japan. The Japanese have had me thinking about hate quite a bit lately.