- Many Japanese have a complex about their stomachs
10 March 2010, 11:41 pm
I’m not really sure how the pie chart I have extracted from this survey by iShare into body complexes relates to the subject, but I thought it was interesting enough to graph. Demographics Between the 3rd and 8th of February 2010 497 members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 56.1% [...]...
- iPhone outselling all individual netbook vendors
10 March 2010, 12:11 am
A recent survey from goo Research, reported on by japan.internet.com, into mobile devices (the fourth time this regular survey was conducted) found that the iPhone far outsold ASUS’s Eee PC, the top netbook. Demographics On the 9th of February 2010 1,080 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 53.1% of the sample [...]... - Premium Japanese brands preferred for mini-notebooks, netbooks
8 March 2010, 11:35 pm
In the US and the UK I get the distinct impression that the netbook market is in a rush for the bottom, but here in Japan, premium-priced mini-notebooks seem to be the norm according to this recent survey from Media Interactive reported on by japan.internet.com. Demographics Over the 16th and 17th of February 2010 1,000 internet users [...]... - Hating your foreign tour guide
8 March 2010, 12:10 am
goo Ranking recently took a look at when people think their tour guide on an overseas holiday is terrible - the foreign in the title refers to the location, as the guides may either be Japanese or local. Demographics Between the 20th and 22nd of January 2010 1,071 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a [...]...
- Open diplomacy
9 March 2010, 11:45 pm
Within a week of the formation of the first Bolshevik government, Leon Trotsky, the People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs, went to the foreign ministry and forced the staff to open safes containing secret treaties that the Tsarist government had made with the Allied powers over the course of World War I, treaties that for the most part concerned how the Allies would divide up the territorial spoils of war."Abolition of secret diplomacy," wrote Trotsky, "is the first essential of an honorable, p... - The strange death of the LDP
2 March 2010, 1:56 pm
When the Hosokawa government — with Ozawa Ichiro, then secretary-general of one of the leading parties of the eight-party coalition backing the government — passed electoral reform in 1994, one of the arguments made then and ever since by Japanese politicians (and American political scientists) was that the new mixed single-member district/proportional representation electoral system would produce a British-style two-party system that would complement the British-style administrative and pol... - Still before dawn
25 February 2010, 9:40 am
In the wake of Koizumi Junichiro's landslide election victory in 2005, the Economist published a survey on Japan under the headline "The Sun Also Rises," complete with a cover photo over the sun shining over Mt. Fuji.The Economist was hardly alone in proclaiming that the Koizumi era marked the beginning of a new, optimistic era after the woe of the lost decade. If Koizumi was the face of a more politically assertive Japan, Toyota's rise was a symbol that despite economic stagnation, Japan's lea... - The DPJ's unheralded realism
25 February 2010, 9:11 am
In the latest stop in his regional tour, Foreign Minister Okada Katsuya visited Australia for talks with Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Foreign Minister Stephen Smith.Most of the headlines have focused on the exchange of words over whaling — the polite phrasing seems to be that Okada and Rudd had a "frank discussion", and Rudd has threatened to sue Japan if it does not halt whaling by November — but more important in the long term may be the agreement reached between the two governments to s...
- 1,000-year old tree in front of Kamakura shrine knocked down by strong winds
10 March 2010, 7:39 pm
KAMAKURA, Kangagawa -- A 1,000-year-old giant ginkgo tree in front of the main hall of Tsurugaoka Hachimangu shrine here has been knocked down, apparently by strong winds.... - Ex-civil servant Maiko Itai crowned Miss Universe Japan
10 March 2010, 7:30 pm
A 25-year-old former civil servant was crowned with this year's Miss Universe Japan on Tuesday.... - 65 years after the Great Tokyo Air Raid, the bereaved still remember
10 March 2010, 7:08 pm
On March 10, 65 years after the Great Tokyo Air Raid of 1945, an association of families left bereaved by the attack also marked their 10-year anniversary since the group's founding.... - Mainichi reporter vindicated as Foreign Ministry admits secret Okinawa payments to U.S.
10 March 2010, 6:41 pm
Japan secretly agreed to give the United States some $4 million to pay for the restoration of U.S....
- Japan’s GDP down 0.3% in January
7 March 2010, 10:28 pm
According to a report released Wednesday by the Japan Center for Economic Research, Japan’s GDP fell by 0.3% in January compared to the previous month, showing a decline for the first time in two months. January’s figures contrast the 0.3% increase seen in December.... - Consumer confidence index inches up in January
14 February 2010, 11:04 pm
According to data released Friday by the Cabinet Office, Japan’s Consumer Confidence Index rose to 39.0 in January, up from 37.6 in in December. January’s rise, however, did not make up for the drop seen in December, as the index remained below the 39.5 level seen in November 2009. The consumer confidence index itself contains five [...]... - Nikkei: “Devastation” awaits department stores in 2010
10 February 2010, 11:50 pm
The Nikkei certainly isn’t mincing words when it comes to describing the state of Japan’s department store industry. In an article entitled “More Devastation Awaits Dept Stores In ‘10,” the paper made its case for why the department store industry might see a record number of closures over the coming year. The Nikkei points out [...]... - Mutantfrog: The history of department stores in Kyoto
5 February 2010, 12:24 am
For an absolutely awesome writeup on the history of department stores in Kyoto, check out Roy Berman’s recent post “The history of department stores in Kyoto, and Kyoto in the history of the department store” at the Mutantfrog Travelogue....
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