Ian: Nippon Madness!

Japanese Whaling: A bottomless pit?

Mon, 29 Mar 2004 03:56:01 GMT

3rd Printing!

Japanese Dream Machine (BBC)

Thu, 15 Jan 2004 02:23:23 GMT

I want one now!

Sony introduces 360 degree one shot lens!

Wed, 10 Dec 2003 02:53:44 GMT

Way Cool!

Neo Koi tatto!

Sat, 18 Oct 2003 03:10:52 GMT

Way way cool!

EU Pressures Japan to End Closed-Door Press Practices

Thu, 21 Aug 2003 02:07:49 GMT

It's about time!

Japanese Triple-Wired by 2007?

Mon, 07 Jul 2003 05:50:08 GMT

Really? Ministry of Post and Telemmunications is a very loaded source!

Periodic Table of Haiku

Sun, 16 Mar 2003 03:58:33 GMT

Insanely wonderful!

The History of Manga

Wed, 12 Mar 2003 05:05:36 GMT

Very Interesting!

Computer Illiteracy Japan Style

Tue, 11 Mar 2003 02:40:09 GMT

We have yet another problem, sire!

Sony: the complete home entertainer? [The Economist]

Fri, 28 Feb 2003 03:14:56 GMT

Hmmmm....

Sumo Association head Kitanoumi said that Osaka Gov Fusae Ota will not be able to present a trophy to the March sumo tournament winner because women aren't allowed to step onto the dohyo. (Mainichi Shimbun)

Sat, 22 Feb 2003 05:22:37 GMT

I totally agree! I mean...ahh.....

Smart cards in Edo (CNN)

Tue, 18 Feb 2003 10:35:33 GMT

Cool!

The Civil War Inside Sony [Wired]

Tue, 28 Jan 2003 02:24:14 GMT

So that's why they are doing nothing!

Is Koizumi brain dead? Answer: Ahh...perhaps!

Tue, 14 Jan 2003 11:00:29 GMT

At a time where a match could set off a war on the Korean peninsula, our fascist friends in Kasumigaseki have got a bad head cold that is clouding their already clouded thinking! It takes exactly 9 minutes and 11 seconds for a SCUD launched from North Korea to hit 9 nuclear reactors on Japan's north coast. Game over!

Tue, 17 Dec 2002 10:05:08 GMT

Japanese retro-fitted hamsters burn up the track record!

Yet more Nippon gloom: is that possible?

Tue, 17 Dec 2002 08:47:22 GMT

Well shit!

More Japanese innovation! Exhausting week!

Wed, 09 Oct 2002 07:29:40 GMT

I want two 'to go'.

Japanese skinship: exchanging emails through a handshake!

Tue, 08 Oct 2002 03:12:32 GMT

Now this is convenient!!

Having your whale and eating it too: A Japanese horror show!

Sat, 28 Sep 2002 06:45:42 GMT

Click on the story title to open the outline view!

The Japanese are truly strange: caring about customers and friends! What an insane proposition!

Fri, 20 Sep 2002 03:00:25 GMT

Hmmmmm..survival in the jungle!

A weblog is a digital 'meishi'!

Fri, 13 Sep 2002 02:40:46 GMT

One of the purposes of the Japanese 'meishi' or calling card is to instantly know your:

a) opponent's b) colleague's, c) perspective date's d) customers' e) and anyone else who falls through the cracks BACKGROUND. The reason this is important is so you can adjust the 'register meter', a linguistic knob located in the left frontal lobe that adds verbal candy to speech such as 'isn't that interesting' or ' you don't say' to elevate the perceived status of the speaker. So the meishi gets out there fast, real fast, somewhat like a gun in a cowboy western....KABANG...here's my meishi and this is WHO I AM and THIS IS WHAT I DO and this is the kindergarden I graduated from! Now a weblog is usually scanned quickly, almost as quickly as a magazine on a rack: your either 'in' or 'out'; there's not a lot of wavering. But the blog goes a bit further than the meishi in that it provides the following information, albeit indirectly:

1) What you are reading (i.e. RSS feeds)? 2) What are your ideas on what you are reading (i.e. comments on RSS feeds)? 3) What are your current interests (i.e the things that keep you up at night) 4) What are your opinions on ANYTHING (this gets slightly dangerous!) 5) Where do you go to read other peoples' ideas on ANYTHING (i.e. navigator links)

So reading a weblog, can get someone up to date instantly on what's going on in your head! A case in point: an old friend recently got in touch after twenty years and politely asked: " Gee... whatccha been up to?" " Ah....lets see....go here: www.xyxyxyx.weblog...that'll tell what I've been up to!" So the weblog is, in fact, the ideal digital meishi: it lets people know your current intellectual '10-4', with perhaps more information than needed! But unlike real human contact, you can easily flip the channel button on a weblog and tune into another person if it gets boring! And perhaps that's the real attraction of weblogs after all: the channel changer!

Salon.com News | Japanese drop out of new national ID system

Mon, 12 Aug 2002 06:54:03 GMT

Who said the Japanese were docile?

NTT vs Korea: this looks like the World Cup all over again, but this time the sport is broadband!

Wed, 24 Jul 2002 02:55:00 GMT

This is an excellent example of why the Japanese utilities need to get involved and put on their broadband boxing gloves!

Japanese industry & M$ innovation: they both eventually get it right!

Fri, 19 Jul 2002 10:32:54 GMT

I think I'll walk, thank you!

The Japanese are a resourceful people: you'd be surprised how much they can take!

Tue, 16 Jul 2002 03:50:42 GMT

So much for the tea ceremony and sitting Zen!