Which of these women women do you find more attractive?

A Japanese TV show recently conducted a series of experiments in which men were placed in mundane situations involving the two women above (the prettier girl is on the right, for those of you who are blind) and would have to make a choice between them.
In [...]

Frito Lay has just released special snacks endorsed by two of Japan’s most famous eaters:

The Food Stadium snacks will come in the two varieties: Giant Shirota’s burnt rice soy sauce-flavored snacks, and Tomoko Miyake’s sukiyaki-flavored snacks
[via EatFeats]

Re-entry Japan, the blog dedicated to protesting Japan’s new immigration system, has created a 1-page tract explaining some of the positions against fingerprinting foreigners:

The tract, which is written in Japanese, French, and English, can be downloaded from their site. They encourage visitors to print it out and have included suggestions on how to distribute [...]

200 employees of Japan Airlines are suing the company after it was discovered that JAL and its union had been secretly creating files full of personal information about 9800 of its employees. The two pictures below show some of the 158 types of data the files contained.

A few examples of entries included in the [...]

What do you do when you catch a 208 kilogram giant grouper? Cut it up and eat it, as this Japanese news report shows:

The man cutting it up says he believes it would be large enough to provide nabe pot stew meat for 600 people. The creature looks a bit gross, and I [...]

“Ugh. Not another post about whaling!”
The election of a new Australian Prime Minister who speaks Mandarin and is prepared to damage his nation’s alliance with Japan over the whaling issue isn’t exactly great news for the Japanese government. When Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura was asked about the whaling issue following the Australian [...]

The Asahi Shinbun reports that the Japanese Golden Eagle is in trouble:
The outlook is grim for Japanese golden eagles, designated a national natural treasure. Breeding rates have plunged in the Tohoku region, home to the endangered bird of prey, according to researchers.
Loss of habitat and hunting grounds is to blame.
Raptor researchers in the volunteer Mokin-rui [...]

Yet another Japanese TV report about the new fingerprinting system at airports, this time with a special focus on illegal immigration:

The first couple minutes are pretty much a repeat of the introduction to the system we’ve seen in other TV clips, but 2 minutes and 30 seconds into the clip we are shown a particularly [...]

The demise of NOVA has been well reported by every media source from blogs such as Japan Probe to newspapers like the Asahi Shimbun. Now NOVA is coming back: G Education, a subsidiary of Nagoya based G Communication, is opening branches throughout Japan. On Monday, November 26th, 2007 G Education will reopen [...]

I was browsing upcoming books on Amazon.com last night and I happened to discover that an English language version of Charles Robert Jenkins’ autobiography has found a publisher and will be released in early 2008! It is co-written by Jim Frederick, who interviewed Jenkins back in 2004 for an article in Time Magazine, and [...]

This dog absolutely hates the idea of his stuffed panda wearing underwear:

Wondering if the nuclear power station in your prefecture is leaking fatal levels of radiation? Just check your cell phone:
The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency will from fiscal 2008 offer an online service for cell phones that will provide the latest information on accidents and incidents at nuclear power stations and related facilities.
The [...]