Well, it’s a holiday week in Japan, and you know what that means: everyone paid four times the normal price for plane tickets and hotel rooms and will be taking fantastically overpriced vacations! I’ll be traveling to Shanghai until the 20th, but don’t worry! Japan Probe is not going to drop dead for the week. Konbini-lifer Brent will be taking the helm of Japan Probe while I am gone, posting a few updates to keep you distracted from your real lives. In addition, a few updates I prepared in advance will be appearing from time to time (depending on when I set them up to appear in Wordpress). Perhaps there will be massive anti-Japanese protests in Shanghai following Koizumi’s Yasukuni visit?  I’ll let you know if I see any.