Here in the Valley (I live in Silicon Valley) Toyota Priuses were back ordered for months not long ago. I don’t know where it stands now. But people were buying these snazzy ‘green cars’ and …

I am looking at a chart that was published in a recent Businessweek article.
Since the early 1990s, when Japan’s recession supposedly began AND when Russia began to open up after the Berlin walls came tumbling down (I …

Which Asian country’s GDP expanded at 5 times the US rate of 1.1%?
If you guessed Japan, you are right. In the last quarter of last year, Japan’s GDP grew at a rate of 5.5% annual …

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 …