Online gaming law set to take effect in China – CNN.com
Sunday, August 1st, 2010 Posted in Blogroll, Culture, Media | No Comments »Online gaming law set to take effect in China - CNN.com. sometimes people who know nothing of the gaming industry shouldn't comment on it.... While it may not have been a law before, the things laid out in this article were already ...
Uniqlo operator to make English its official company language from March 2012
Thursday, June 24th, 2010 Posted in Culture, Japan, Media | 2 Comments »Uniqlo operator to make English its official company language from March 2012 - The Mainichi Daily News. what's more interesting is that these companies feel that they need to be speaking english internally to be competitive. Also the standardization of ...
U.S. Expat Taxes Drive Americans to Give Up Citizenship – TIME
Thursday, April 22nd, 2010 Posted in Media | No Comments »U.S. Expat Taxes Drive Americans to Give Up Citizenship - TIME. luckily(?) for me, working in a japanese company you could never possibly make $90K! On another note... 3 years ago with teh exchange rate that $90k in u.s. dollars would have ...
Why would ‘RapeLay’ thrive in Japan? – CNN.com
Sunday, April 4th, 2010 Posted in Culture, Japan, Media | No Comments »haha... i found this article funny, while completely true. And probably is a response to all the flak they got from critiquing an old game that is not available anywhere but japan. But still it's nice that they actually covered ...
‘Toyota defense’ could reverse criminal conviction – CNN.com
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 Posted in Media | No Comments »'Toyota defense' could reverse criminal conviction - CNN.com. i'm not debating the innocence of this guy... but the family of the killed relatives are money grabbing whores. Relatives of the victims, who asked the judge to give him the maximum sentence, ...
ANA to introduce women-only lavatories
Thursday, February 25th, 2010 Posted in Culture, Japan, Media | No Comments »Airline to introduce women-only lavatories - CNN.com. besides how against i am to this... reintroducing segregation when there really is no need. I wanted to point out that i read the same exact news story from the japanese yahoo news service ...
Japan call girls and pimp arrested… for drug pocession
Thursday, February 18th, 2010 Posted in Culture, Japan, Media | No Comments »Man accused of drugging, having sex with 2 high school girls - The Mainichi Daily News. Like throughout the article they mention numerous times that the men present were owners of a call girl service ring and the women present were ...
Skill Level-Specific Differences in Snowboarding-Related Injuries
Saturday, February 13th, 2010 Posted in Culture, Japan, Media | No Comments »Skill Level-Specific Differences in Snowboarding-Related Injuries — Am J Sports Med. Nice quick study. Very interesting to see that beginners are the most dangerous! So why is it noone wears helmets in japan! As soon i put on my helmet here, ...
Vice Guide to North Korea
Thursday, February 11th, 2010 Posted in Culture, Media | No Comments »Vice Guide to North Korea - CNN.com. A camera crew got into N. Korea and got some amazing footage.. Check out the vid on cnn and then follow the link to VBS's site to see the rest of the documentary
Sea Shepherd’s acts of violence show a total disregard for law and order – The Mainichi Daily News
Monday, January 11th, 2010 Posted in Japan, Media | No Comments »Sea Shepherd's acts of violence show a total disregard for law and order - The Mainichi Daily News. but from video footage of the incident, there is no doubt that the Ady Gil cut off the Shonan Maru's path to cause ...