http://www.mutantfrog.com/2009/05/22/bloomberg-on-love-hotels/

I wonder if this guy’s strategy is to create a buzz about wacky Japan stuff, pump up his stock price, and then sell off at the top and walk away a rich man while all the suckers are stuck holding the bag.

Then he can start telling people about the great investment opportunities in the butsudan and oshibori industries or pick your own random piece of Japanese culture.

Japan basically isn’t a hot story like it was in the early 90s.

You still get the occasional bit of up-to-date political news in the UK. Aso’s election troubles have been widely reported, for example. But a lot of stories are culture based, like this one, rather “thoss wacky Japanese” in nature and they are old or recycled.