Bubba said the truck has to be big.
Bubba said the truck has to be powerful.
Bubba said the truck also needs Texas-size breaks to stop three-plus tons of horses, hay, gear and tralier from taking …

Japan’s Danube

I was talking to a Japanese student of mine today and he turned me on to one of Japan’s top ten most popular bloggers. So, I went to visit..virutally.
Her name is Chika Watanabe. www.chikawatanabe.com
What …

There is a flight from Taipei to Fukuoka (southern Japan) and Tokyo.
Taiwan’s EVA airlines www.evaair.com has teamed up with one of Japan’s most popular cartoon characters Hello Kitty to create www.hellokitty.com and come up …

Apparently music looks like a smooth river stone.
That’s what Yujin Morisawa, one of the designers of Sony’s new Walkman, thinks. Morisawa is quoted as saying, "I thought, how can I give shape to music?"
Others on his design …

The earliest recorded eruption of Fuji-san is 781 and it seems it has only blown its top about 18 times since then.
It happened 13 times between its first time and 400+ years after that. Between 1500 …

"We’re getting ashed on," my friend told me.
"Huh?!"
"We’re getting ashed on," he said.
I was speaking to a friend of mind who lived very near the southern tip of the island of Kyushuu, which is one of Japan’s …

I did love that car. And then my wife loved it and then my son loved it and now the auction block loves it.
My family owned a GEO Tracker until earlier this year. We …

Quick…what goes Crick Crick Crick? 
Answerw: All the cameras at a Japanese press conference.
Maybe this belongs in the www.amanwalksintoanoffice.com blog but I came across an article that reminded me of this, um, joke.
BTW, the Japanese …

If Fuji-san is Japan’s most famous mountain, then what’s its most famous lake?
Well, many people may not care, but I do, because I had to go all the way around it once, over hill and dale …