Mainichi is reporting that a panty thief has been captured in Nagoya.  Apparently the 50 year old man had over 1700 articles of womens underwear in his garage.  He admitted that he has been responsible for 250 incidents since 1990.  Considering the fact that he had stolen 67 items of underwear in his latest break-in, [...]

Nintendo DS will help you pass the TOEIC test(and Viagra labels). 
I’ve been really impressed by Nintendo recently.  Instead of creating more games featuring cartoony marios playing sports, they have branched out, attempting to get adults to buy the Nintendo DS.  A series of ‘brain-training’ games have been released in Japan, aimed at getting adults to [...]

Ever wonder how to neatly fold a t-shirt in seconds?  I never have, but I think this Japanese TV clip is pretty cool.

The Mangyongbong-92, a North Korean ferry, arrived in Niigata today.  The ferry makes several trips between North Korea and Japan each year, and is one of the few direct links between North Korea and the free world.  The Mangyongbong-92 is allowed to dock in Japan despite the fact that North Korea has an openly hostile [...]

According to today’s WaiWai Column a real estate company in Toyama Prefecture is selling a 15 year-old Japanese castle.  The castle was built by a construction company as a reception/party hall, but the company had financial troubles and was forced to sell it off.  Now you can be the proud owner of a Japanese castle [...]

According to the Yomiuri Shinbun the former president of the Japan Skating Federation embezzled about $78,000 of his organization’s money so that he could send it to a Nigerian internet scammer:
Ex-JSF chief ’stole 9 million yen’ to pay Nigerian ‘investment’
The Yomiuri Shimbun
The former president of the Japan Skating Federation allegedly embezzled funds to cover [...]

Hey look! It’s the Gospellers, a popular Japanese R&B group! I had never really heard of them until this morning, when I saw that their new single is #2 on the charts. The above photo is from one of their previous albums. Here is the cover of their new album:

Gospellers: now with more [...]

Japanese food at its finest?

Boss coffee has launched a new ad campaign featuring Tommy Lee Jones as a space alien visiting the planet earth to investigate humans. Watch it!
Rough translation:
The two Japanese guys are eating and talking about how there are probably space aliens who are on earth, disguised as humans to observe us.  They probably watch our [...]

Yesterday, a ’shocking’ news story was reported by Mainichi.  A 13-year-old junior high school student in Miyagi Prefecture committed suicide because he was being bullied at school:

Bullied junior high school student hangs self after becoming ‘tired of living’
MIYAZAKI — A 13-year-old junior high school student hanged himself in a cowshed next to [...]

You probably haven’t heard of the Liancourt Rocks, and if you have, you probably don’t give a shit about them. But let’s pretend that you want to read about them, at least for the sake of laughing at the morons who do.
The Liancourt Rocks are some rocky little islands located somewhere between Korea and [...]

You’ve probably been wondering why this site hasn’t had a lot of updates recently.  Well, I’ll tell you the reason: NTT sucks.

NTT: bad service, but what can you do about it?
NTT is the gigantic telecommunications monopoly that controls the phone lines in Japan.  If you want phone or internet in your house, you will have [...]