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Using high speed rail service in Japan? Then come take a ride with me up into Northern territory and see the Soul of Japan

There are more than 170 cheap Japanese hostels and guest houses in “ Sanya ” of North Asakusa and well-known to backpackers around the world for its affordable accommodation, that traditionally cater to the day laborers who stay in them. In recent years Sanya has focused on international backpacker customers with hotels and hostels catering to the super budget traveler.

Aso still putting abduction issue before nuclear threat.

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The annual Japan Expo opened in a Paris suburb Thursday for a four-day run with the prospect of drawing a crowd of around 150,000, the biggest in the history of the exhibition showcasing the country’s pop culture.

I find this a very disturbing story and surely a clear violation of civil liberties. According to some reports in the media the Roppongi/Shibuya area is a place to but drugs in the bars and night clubs. It's not an area I visit. But cops going around asking foreigners to piss in plastic cups isn't the way to deal with the problem.

Take that performance enhancing drugs.

As he says where East meets West - this is quite a number of years old but still holds up.

I was born in 1971 in Tokyo, Japan and currently live and work in The Blue Mountains. Prior to finding art, I received a Bachelor of Economics and worked in Tokyo's Exchange Market for three years. Shortly thereafter, I became the assistant for pottery master, Toshio Kinjo - the oldest son of Jiro Kinjo (considered the National Living Treasure of Japan).

BEIJING— Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has called for an Internet boycott on July 1 — the anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party's founding — to protest a government plan requiring all computers produced in China to contain software that blocks access to pornographic and other sites considered “unhealthy” for young people.

On The Media has an interview with moderate Muslim televangelist Ahmad al-Shugairi in which he comments on creating a series of programs about Japan:

"For example, we preach in our schools that cleanliness is a major part of the believer. However, you see the streets in the Arab world, a lot of it, it’s just a mess because we’re not practicing this virtue of cleanliness."

I don't think I need to say anything.

..well,when it comes down to government cutbacks and a faux recession panic - it all just goes out the window or down the toilet.

* Tony Barrell: "Well it's just so hard to resist the lure of the Japanese Emigres"..