The “Hallyu [Korean Wave] Expo in Asia” opened this week on the Korean island of Jeju this week:

Titled “Hallyu Expo in Asia,” the exposition is a high-tech multimedia event to promote Korean culture to outer regions by providing participants with the chance to experience dramas, movies and pop music.

“The expo is to highlight the cultural [...]

Some news/links for this morning:
-An Englilsh school in Yamanashi has run an employment ad for a new teacher at their school. The requirements:
“blonde hair blue or green eyes and brightly character“.
-The New York Times has a feature on the CLAMP manga authors. [Link via Dark Diamond Network]
-Japanese police have raided four locations [...]

Mainichi Shinbun and Japan Today have posted articles on a a list of anti-bullying proposals released today by a government panel. Let’s take a look at the proposals mentioned in the article:
-Clarify the standards for warning and punishing children who bully schoolmates. Seems reasonable, but how exactly are bullies supposed to be punished? [...]

Today’s Mainichi WaiWai column reports that Machie Onoda, the wife of Hiroo Onoda has agreed to take over as the head of the Japan Women’s Association, a conservative group that strongly opposes gender free education and the right for women to retain their maiden names after marriage. For those of you who don’t know, [...]

For this edition of Polling Japanese Students, I asked 31 junior high school students what their mothers did for a living. Here are the results:
1. Is your mother a housewife?

2. If your mother is not a housewife, what is her occupation?

I can’t say I was shocked by the results of this poll. Feminism [...]

A few Japan-related links for this morning:
-More than half of Japanese people reuse their bath water, according to recently translated poll at What Japan Thinks.
-An Asia Times editorial places the blame for Japan/China history disputes squarely on Japan [and completely ignores how the Chinese government cultivated and exploited anti-Japanese nationalism, not to mention Japan's 21 [...]

Around 11:15pm last night, a woman was driving her car across train tracks. The gates went down, signaling that a train was coming. What did she do? This video will explain:

Instead of driving through the barrier, the woman decided to get out of her car and flee in terror. According to [...]

News/Links for this morning:
-The LDP decided to readmit 11 of the 12 postal rebels who petitioned to rejoin the party. Takeo Hiranuma, who refused to attach a written pledge to accept the LDP’s conditions that include promising to support the privatization of Japan Post, was no allowed back in the party.
-Pink Tentacle writes about [...]

A week ago it was announced that the Shanghai World Financial Center, a skyscraper that the Mori Building Company is constructing in China, would be given a new name. The new name, “Shanghai Hills,” would have put the building’s name in line with Mori Building Company’s other famous building projects in Japan, namely Roppongi [...]

Back in August, I reported that Razor Ramone HG (Hard Gay) had married bikini model Anna Suzuki. Their official wedding ceremony was held yesterday, and here is their official wedding portrait :

And a close-up of Hard Gay sans sunglasses:

Some news this morning:
-The scripted Q&A townhall meeting scandal continues to grow.
-Nonpayment for elementary/junior high school lunches in 2005 totalled more than 1.8 billion yen, or 0.53 percent of the amount that should have been collected, according to a Yomiuri Shimbun survey. Uh oh, better force those poor people to pay up!
-New Tokyo Tower? [...]

Are you a fan of air guitar? How about air pro-wresting?

Or the ancient tradition of air sumo wresting?