Japanese General Election 2009

General election will be held on August 30. Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has ruled Japan almost continuously for the past 50 years.

Working Conditions of Foreign English Teachers in Japan

Working Conditions of Foreign English Teachers in Japan

Japanese Space Missions and Exploration

Finance Minister of Japan: Alcohol or Medicine?

Do Japanese Have a Right to Discriminate?

Power in the 21st Century

The basic concept of power is the ability to influence others to get them to do what you want. There are three major ways to do that: one is to threaten them with sticks; the second is to pay them with carrots; the third is to attract them or co-opt them, so that they want what you want. If you can get others to be attracted to want what you want, it costs you much less in carrots and sticks.

Taro Aso vs Old Testament

Japan is the Worst Place to Work

Results of the global survey of 115,000 people in 33 countries.

Taro Aso Evangelion (Video)

Taro Aso Offends the Elderly

“They’re hobbling around and constantly going to the doctor,” Prime Minister Taro Aso was quoted as saying in a transcript of a Nov. 20 meeting of ministers on economic policies.

Filipino Girl Born and Raised in Japan Faces Deportation

Noriko Calderon, who attends a junior high school in Warabi, Saitama Prefecture, said she had believed she was Japanese until her 38-year-old mother, Sarah, was arrested in July 2006 for not having a visa and the family was ordered to leave Japan.

Why Excessive Manga Reading is Bad for You

Resembling some classic gaffes by U.S. President George W. Bush, Aso has recently been failing during speeches to correctly pronounce certain words, many of them commonly used in daily Japanese. The words are written in kanji in his scripts.