- Sat. May 3rd, 2025
The Rise & Fall Of Japanese Xmas: Please Bring Back The Sex & Money & Carnal Pleasures
One is referring to the Japanese Christmas, of course. Back in the day, or the 1990s to early 2000s to be exact, Christmas was drenched in two things: sex and…
The Girl’s Guide to Decluttering and Hunting (in that order)
Consider these 2 pictures. Before: Single, living alone in a 29 square meter apartment in Tokyo. The place is so filthy it’s a struggle every morning to shower, get dressed…
Scary Things You Never Knew You Didn’t Know About Japanese Halloween
The creators of the YouTube data-driven drama series, Nonalog which "tells the stories of young people finding each other in an overly-connected world" turns its attention to Halloween for a…
Kono Makes A Discomforting Statement on The Comfort Women And Japan Diplomacy
The comfort women existed through very wide area through out all of Asia, and this is something which I, myself do acknowledge. We have seen, for example in the case…
Former Prime Minister Murayama Tells Japan’s Leader Abe, “Study Up or Shut Up!”
In that statement that we need to study history and his pointing out that Abe had not read or understood the Potsdam Declaration, Murayama seemed to be saying to his…
Bitcoin CEO Karpeles Arrested But What Is He Guilty Of?
The Japanese police arrested Mark Karpeles, the CEO of Mt Gox, once the world’s largest bitcoin exchange on Saturday morning for inflating his US accounts. But what is he really…
Pedophiles, JK, AKB48 and Trolls
It's condescending and sexist attitudes like yours that encourage women and girls to go into the JK Business in the first place, because they are lead to believe that they…
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The JK Biz (日本語版）未成年の性的搾取（JKビジネス）と日本の異様な「カワイイ」
性は商品として売られることに日本人は男女を問わず寛容な傾向がある。大人が合意によって行っている前提であればそれは「寛容」と呼べるだろうが、未成年が対象となると全く別の話だ。また、「合意」の部分についても誤謬がないか。
Nikkei buys the Financial Times: Have The Lunatics Taken Over the Asylum?
"The Financial Times broke the story on the massive Olympus Accounting Fraud while Nikkei ignored it and was a mouthpiece for Olympus for the first week. Why should we believe…
With “The War Bill” Looming, Japan’s Press & Academia Rebel Against Team Abe
Professors Koichi Nakano, Mari Osawa and Manabu Sato visited the FCCJ on Friday to once again explain why more than 95% of political scholars are against this new bill that…