By AN O’Bergine, special correspondent for purple things, Osaka, Japan So have you seen the ads for the very new, very fast, Shinkansen train? They are all over JR stations…
In the wake of the riots, Mr. Cameron has decided to fix a broken nation by raising rail fares by 8 per cent. Many people think that rail fares are…
David Cameron, the UK prime minister, is a racist. I do not use the term lightly because it’s a big deal calling someone a bigot, saying that they are irrational…
Even while the ground continues to shake, reactors are melting down and rescuers count the dead, men in suits seek to make political capital. Kyodo reports: LDP urges Kan to…
Quoting from the Grauniad: Barack Obama pledged US assistance following what he called a potentially “catastrophic” disaster. What on earth is a potentially catastrophic disaster? What does this language mean?…
The Japanese Shinto god of weather is wanted for crimes against humanity. The International Court of Human Rights in The Hague has issued a warrant for his arrest. The Japanese…
Life imitates art, or in this case damn near plagiarises it. Corporate bastards in Japan have evidently been reading this author’s fandoobly novel Weed and have shamelessly ripped it off.…
Japanese hostages released from their Iraqi captors returned home this weekend to a bill from the government for their rescue and a public scolding from the prime minister. Japan is…
Told you so. After the Madrid bomb, I said in an entry on this page we should expect an attack against Japanese civilians to lever out the Japanese army from…