JAPANESE SCIENTISTS "ERADICATE" DOWN SYNDROME Colin Liddell July 25, 2025 0 Japanese scientists, working at Mie University, have successfully deleted the chromosome causing Down syndrome, leading to the possibility o... Read more »
LATEST POLLS PUT APATHY ABOVE STATUS QUO ABOVE "FASCISM" Colin Liddell July 15, 2025 0 Sohei Kamiya of Sanseito People expecting the Japanese House of Councillors election on July 20th to shake things up will be sorely disappoi... Read more »
SUMO BURGER (WITH A HINT OF CANNIBALISM) Colin Liddell July 15, 2025 0 In Japan, nationalism works in weird and not always wonderful ways. For years, the Japanese national sport of sumo was dominated by poker-fa... Read more »
SCAT CAT PLANTS SPY CAM IN SEAT RIM OF SHIT CAN Colin Liddell June 13, 2025 0 In another blow to Japan's mangled image of sexual normalcy, a man in Okazaki City has been arrested on suspicion of planting a spy came... Read more »
"NEW JAPANESE" ASSIMILATION PROBLEM: CURRY ATTACK ON COMPANY PRESIDENT Colin Liddell June 13, 2025 0 Why is it always Saitama? With a fertility rate of 1.15, Japan is set to become a much more "multicultural" society as "New J... Read more »
ODILON REDON: FROM DARKNESS TO DREAMS AT THE PANASONIC SHIODOME MUSEUM Colin Liddell June 04, 2025 0 Odilon Redon, Pegasus, the Horse on the Rock , c. 1907-10, pastel on paper 80.7×65cm, Hiroshima Museum of Art (left); Closed Eyes , c. 189... Read more »
"CRACKDOWN" ON THE MALE HOST CLUBS THAT ARE DRIVING FEMALE PROSTITUTION Colin Liddell May 21, 2025 0 In recent years there has been a surge of "old fashioned" street prostitution on the streets of Tokyo and other big Japanese citie... Read more »
JAPAN SAVES THE WORLD WITH ECO-FRIENDLY "MIRACLE" PLASTIC Colin Liddell May 12, 2025 0 Plastic, the main threat to human life on this planet In answer to the World's growing "eco" needs, a Japanese research inst... Read more »
SHOCKING MURDER OF SCHOOLGIRL IN SAITAMA Colin Liddell April 25, 2025 0 A shocking murder has occurred in Saitama. The gruesome incident occurred on the night of April 14th, when the suspect, Hiroyuki Taniuchi ... Read more »
RESTAURANT REVIEW: JIN DIN ROU, URAWA Colin Liddell April 23, 2025 0 During a recent social meet-up in Urawa, my associate and I decided on the popular Chinese dumpling eatery Jun Din Rou. The chain started i... Read more »
ONLY IN JAPAN: RENT A RETIREE! Colin Liddell April 21, 2025 1 Ojisan is the Japanese word for old and middle-aged men, but here in Japan you can also personally rent them as crusty and wrinkled companio... Read more »
THE SEVEN PASSIONS OF FOUJITA: THE LATEST LOOK AT AN ART ICON Colin Liddell April 20, 2025 0 © Fondation Foujita / ADAGP, Paris & JASPAR, Tokyo, 2024 E5785 The big exhibition at the Sompo Museum of Art, located in Shinjuku's ... Read more »